A brief history of seven killings
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm
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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction | FIC | Checked Out | May 8, 2024 |
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A novel"--Jacket.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Awards
Man Booker Prize, 2015.
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