A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James Ryan Anderson Dwight Bacquie Cherise Boothe Robertson Dean Johnathan McClain Robert Younis Various Narrators First published 2014

About this book

"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--

Subjects

  • amerikanisches englisch
  • assassination attempts
  • assassins
  • attempted assassination
  • crack (drug)
  • fiction
  • fiction, crime
  • fiction / historical
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • fiction / literary
  • historical
  • historischer roman
  • history
  • jamaica, fiction
  • literary
  • musicians, fiction
  • new york times bestseller
  • new york times reviewed
  • nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2015-11-01
  • oral history
  • rastafarians
  • reggae musicians
  • the man booker prize for fiction