A Brief History of Seven Killings
New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Format: Book
Description: xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm
"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Marley, Bob -- Assassination attempts -- Fiction.
Assassins -- Fiction.
Oral history -- Fiction.
Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Fiction.
Rastafarians -- Jamaica -- Fiction.
Jamaica -- History -- 1962- -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Marley, Bob -- Assassination attempts -- Fiction.
Assassins -- Fiction.
Oral history -- Fiction.
Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Fiction.
Rastafarians -- Jamaica -- Fiction.
Jamaica -- History -- 1962- -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9781594486005 (hbk.)
More Formats
"A novel"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2015.