02521cam a2200433 4500 1078418591 TxAuBib 20231219120000.0 140513s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014018475 9781594486005 hardback 159448600X hardback 9781594633942 Riverhead trade paperback 1594633940 Riverhead trade paperback TxAuBib James, Marlon, 1970- A brief history of seven killings : a novel / Marlon James. First Riverhead hardcover edition. New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014. xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Original rockers: December 2, 1976 -- Ambush in the night: December 3, 1976 -- Shadow dancin': February 15, 1979 -- White lines/kids in America: August 14, 1985 -- Sound boy killing: March 22, 1991. 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. Spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters -- assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts -- A 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. 20231219. Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2015. Marley, Bob Assassination attempts Fiction. Since 1900. fast Assassins Fiction. Oral history Fiction. Crack (Drug) Fiction. Reggae musicians Jamaica Fiction. Rastafarians Jamaica Fiction. Jamaica History 1962- Fiction. New York (N.Y) History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. fast Biographical fiction. fast Fiction. fast History. fast