Description: Overall in good condition with wear on the corner of the book as seen in the photo above. “On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but much has been whispered, gossiped and sung about in the streets of West Kingston. Rumors abound regarding the assassins’ fates, and there are suspicions that the attack was politically motivated. A Brief History of Seven Killings delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica’s history and beyond. James deftly chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – gunmen, drug dealers, one-night stands, CIA agents, even ghosts – over the course of thirty years as they roam the streets of 1970s Kingston, dominate the crack houses of 1980s New York, and ultimately reemerge into the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Along the way, they learn that evil does indeed cast long shadows, that justice and retribution are inextricably linked, and that no one can truly escape his fate. Gripping and inventive, shocking and irresistible, A Brief History of Seven Killings is a mesmerizing modern classic of power, mystery, and insight.”
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Type: Novel
Book Title: Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner) : a Novel
Number of Pages: 704 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Crime, Literary, Historical
Item Height: 1.5 in
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 19.9 Oz
Author: Marlon James
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
