A Brief History of Seven Killings: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

'Epic in every sense of the word' New York Times Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught.  In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James reimagines the story behind this near-mythical event, chronicling the lives of a host of unforgettable characters from street kids, drug lords and journalists, to prostitutes and secret service agents.  Gripping, inventive and ambitious, it is one of the most mesmerising and influential novels of the twenty-first century. 'Showcases the extraordinary capabilities of a writer whose importance can scarcely be questioned' Independent   

About the Author :
MARLON JAMES was born in Jamaica. He is the author of John Crow’s Devil (Oneworld, 2015), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and The Book of Night Women (Oneworld, 2009), which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld, 2014), won the Booker Prize in 2015, the American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Fiction Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction, and the Green Carnation Prize, and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Marlon James is also the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first book in his Dark Star Trilogy and a National Book Award finalist, and its sequel, Moon Witch, Spider King.

Review :
'James has triumphed in capturing the tension, the politics, the heat, chaos, beauty and music of Jamaica.' Financial Times 'Vast and vastly ambitious... much to admire... fascinating... the author's imaginative and stylistic range are impressive.' The Sunday Times ‘Vast and teeming … A vivid novel that deserves all the praise it has received.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Breaks new ground… A very fluid and superbly controlled work.’ Spectator 'The ambition is huge, but [James] pulls it off with huge style, confidence, imagination and wit... Extraordinary.' The Times ‘The hottest name in Caribbean literature right now.’ GQ, 'Best Books of 2014' 'When reading reviews of Night Women, James apparently became bored with comparisons to Toni Morrison; and with A Brief History, he’s got bored with comparisons to Quentin Tarantino. But it is hard not to see the strength of that comparison.' Guardian 'Epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex... A testament to Mr. James’s vaulting ambition and prodigious talent.' New York Times 'James’ intoxicating prose is relentless, feverishly up-close inside his characters’ rattled nerves even as the narrative scope widens into an evocative portrait of the author’s native Kingston.' Entertainment Weekly, 'Ten Best Fiction Books of the Decade' ‘Not only persuasive, but tragic, though in its polyphony and scope it’s more than that... Comic, surreal, nightmarish, parodic.’ New York Times Book Review