- Booker Prize 2015 · Winner
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James (born 1970)
English editions
Written in EnglishA Brief History of Seven Killings
Oneworld · United Kingdom · 6 June 2024 · Paperback · 720 pages
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Oneworld · United Kingdom · 16 October 2014 · Hardcover · 688 pages
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Riverhead Books · United States · October 2014 · Hardcover · 688 pages
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Oneworld · United Kingdom · 4 June 2015 · Paperback · 704 pages
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Riverhead Books · United States · 8 September 2015 · Paperback · 704 pages
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Kingston, December 1976: shortly before an election and a concert meant to ease political tension, seven gunmen burst into the Singer's house, wounding him along with his wife and manager. Around that night the book assembles more than a dozen voices: Papa-Lo, boss of the Copenhagen City ghetto, and Josey Wales, his enforcer, who rises past him; the hit man John-John K; journalists; CIA men preoccupied with communism; Nina Burgess, a woman who takes on several identities over the years; and the ghost of a murdered politician. Over five single days spread across fifteen years, the story moves from the gang violence tied to Jamaica's two parties to New York's drug dens in the 1980s and a transformed Jamaica in the 1990s.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Politics, Crime, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Jamaica, United States, 1976–1991
- First published
- 2014
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
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9781780745879 (Oneworld, United Kingdom)
9781594486005 (Riverhead Books, United States)
9781780746357 (Oneworld, United Kingdom)
9781594633942 (Riverhead Books, United States)
9780861545582 (Oneworld, United Kingdom)
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