A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

JAMAICA, 1976
Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught.
From the acclaimed author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf and The Book of NightWomen comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of SevenKillings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters–slum kids, druglords, journalists, prostitutes, gunmen and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising, A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable and extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century.

About the Author
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His novel A Brief History ofSevenKillings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National BookCritics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the MinnesotaBook Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.

Other Books by the Author:
The Book of Night Women
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Moon Witch, Spider King