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Title	:	A Brief History of Seven Killings
Author	:	Marlon James
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 688 pages
Published	:	October 2nd 2014 by Riverhead Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction. Mystery. Crime

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WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 70s, to the crack wars in 80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 90s. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James’ place among the great literary talents of his generation.

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Original Title:	A Brief History of Seven Killings
ISBN:	159448600X (ISBN13: 9781594486005)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (2015), American Book Award (2015), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2015), PEN Open Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2015), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2014) Green Carnation Prize (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015), Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story (2015), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2016)

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Can you dig it, dingledoodies? Futile to say that this is not for the faint of heart, as they would never get past the four page cast of characters, past the opening chapter written by a dead man, his head a smashed pumpkin and two arms bent in a way that arms aren't supposed to bend, past the screams and the blood and the vomit, the dirt rising in a flood then back down like a reflux, past the first chapter in Bam-Bam's voice, gut-wrenching, harrowing: you want change? We will have to wait and

★★★1/2I've finally made it through my re-read! This was my first Marlon James book I read when I got an advance copy before it's release. I was a bit lukewarm on it but after it became a big award winner and I later fell in love with his writing in his other books, I decided to try this one again. Unfortunately, I had a similar experience. The book is just a little too tedious and not as compelling as his other novels. I did really appreciate the Josey Wales, Weeper, Alex, and Eubie characters

This book is probably not for you. I know that seems an odd way to begin a book review, especially a book that youve given 4 stars. But allow me to explain.A Brief History of Seven Killings is hard work.unless you are Jamaican or a Jamaican history scholar, unless you are familiar with drug culture and the workings of the CIA. Or unless you are like me, a person who loves politics and foreign cultures, who doesnt have delicate sensibilities and who doesnt mind doing some research to understand a

Id taken off on the odd run over the years, but it wasnt until this January that I started to take it seriously. A friend mentioned a 10km race along the water in early May. Its funny how a simple deadline is enough to inspire, but with a race on the horizon, I began my training program. One thing Id never quite wrapped my head around was the driving force behind those humans that ran extremely long distances. Surely no razor-tooth beast chased them. How did they motivate themselves through

congratulations and ADORABLE!!this book is a little challenging at the outset, but if you stick with it, you will be rewarded like a motherfucker. (note: if that word upsets you, this book is not for you)it's not the length that is challenging, although 700 pages is a nice chunky brick of a book, and it's not the dialect, unless this is your first exposure to patois. even then, this is a multi-voiced novel, with several characters who are not jamaican, so unlike The Book of Night Women, there

I remember school days painfully toiling over my Latin translations ... and it all came back to haunt me with this!Crikey, chinas! Thought I'd need the ambo! I was a cot case. At first I thought, she'll be apples. I'll give it a burl!! But then I realised my noggin was cactus! I was cheesed off and about to do my lolly. Fair crack of the whip! I had buckleys of sussing out the lingo! Thought I was a drongo! A no-hoper! But stone the crows!!! This was a stinker for me as a reader! A write off!

I've finished the book at last. It is an incredibly long listen. You become involved in the stories of these Jamaicans, Cubans and Americans, dead and alive all acted out in the narration by actors who feel their parts. It is sheer genius and so I'm immediately reading the paperback. Once I've finished it, I'll review the book properly. Suffice it to say that it didn't resonate with me as The Book of Night Women did. It did take me, though, into a parallel universe that I have never experienced