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A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
2014688 pagesDemanding readFast pace
★ Booker Prize, 2015
An attempt on a reggae star's life, told by many voices
In 1976, gunmen attack a famous Jamaican singer at his home in Kingston. The novel uses dozens of narrators, from Kingston gangsters to a CIA agent and a rock journalist, to trace the aftermath over the following fifteen years. It won the 2015 Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Kingston gang members, a CIA agent, a journalist and a young woman called Nina Burgess.
World
Kingston, Jamaica, and New York, 1976 to 1991.
What makes it different
It has dozens of narrators, written in Jamaican patois and standard English.
Feel
Violent and electric.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- A Brief History of Seven KillingsWikipedia