A brief history of seven killings /

James, Marlon, 1970-

A brief history of seven killings / Brief history of 7 killings Marlon James. - London : Oneworld Publications, 2015. - xiv, 688 pages ; 20 cm

"A novel"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"--

9781780746357 (pbk.)

40024114325

2014018475


Marley, Bob--Assassination attempts--Fiction.


Assassins--Fiction.
Oral history--Fiction.
Reggae musicians--Jamaica--Fiction.
Rastafarians--Jamaica--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Historical.


Jamaica--History--1962---Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.


Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

PR9265.9.J358 / B75 2014

813.6 JAM / 000878