A Brief History of Seven Killings

Name: A Brief History of Seven Killings
Author: Marlon James
ISBN: 9780861545582

by Marlon James

2014 · literary fiction · adult

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Set in 2 places · 1 primary

Sense of Place

5/5

Description · Open Library (CC0)

"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"--

Set in

★
Kingston · Jamaica
Kingston ghetto, gang warfare & Bob Marley assassination attempt, 1976
★ primary
New York City · United States
Crack epidemic New York, 1980s