A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner)

by Marlon James

Book Overview

Winner of the Man Booker Prize One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A "thrilling, ambitious . . . intense" (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594633940
• ISBN13: 9781594633942
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Fantastic!!

Fantastic book!!

one of my favorite books

This book was honestly wild from start to finish. My senior year we had to do a book report on a book that won the Man Booker Prize, and I'm so glad I chose this one. The way the author captures the true feelings of the characters is represented so well, and the history of Kingston is spot on. James himself being from Kingston was able to understand the things he put his characters through, despite not having lived through any of the scenarios. It did get a little hard for me to follow at times because of the constant character jumps between each chapter, but regardless, I fell in love with the story, the characters, and the writing style.