num_pages: 688
description: 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 charactersassassins journalists drug dealers and even ghostsA 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.
language: English
title: A Brief History of Seven Killings
publisher: Riverhead Books