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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)

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

Hardcover | Pages: 688 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 26244 Users | 3819 Reviews

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Title	:	A Brief History of Seven Killings
Author	:	Marlon James
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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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Ive been reading this book for an entire year, and its not been easy. At times I wanted to pull my hair out and scream, at times I wanted to throw the thing at the wall and be done with it, but I persisted. I made myself get to the end, and whilst I can say that I didnt entirely enjoy the experience, I do appreciate James narrative style. His deft manipulation of language is clearly the success of his storytelling. The way he writes reflects his characters. This may sound like a simple idea,

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



A Brief History of Seven Killings should not be evaluated based on its supposed brevity, nor on the amount of killings featured in the book. The title could be the source of misguided expectations in this regard, as it is being overly modest on both counts. But if you're expecting a clever, fast, insightful, colourful and authentic novel, you won't be disappointed.My first instinct when I see a book that has won a prize (in this case the Man Booker) is to have zero expectations of it. Even less.

"God puts earth far away from heaven because even he can't stand the smell of dead flesh. Death is not a soul catcher or a spirit, it's a wind with no warmth, a crawling sickness." -- Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven KillingsFirst, it is hard to push all that is into this novel into a bottle. So, I'll just say it felt like some weird hybrid of (here is my brief history of seven fathers/mothers): James Ellroy (think Jamaican Tabloid), Don DeLillo (think Libra), Zadie Smith (think Shiny

Rating this book is a little difficult. I think Im going to go with five stars, because it is quite amazing. There are a few small problems with the book, but they are the kind of problems that come from trying to be too ambitious, so its not perfect but it is great. An ambition is a good thing to have.Karen mentioned this in her review, and an unnamed person from Goodreads disagreed with her in person, but I think hes wrong. A Brief History of Seven Killings is a historical novel right out of

Reader Response A: Hey, waiter! What the hell gives, mac? There's a goddamned experimental novel in my crime novel! You expect me to read this shit?Reader Response B: S'il vous plaît, monsieur? Terribly sorry to be a bother, but there must have been some confusion with my order. You see, there seems to be a crime novel in my experimental novel. I'm afraid I don't have quite the palate for such things.