Marlon James (geb. 1970): A Brief History of Seven Killings, Kartoniert / Broschiert
A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Special 10th Anniversary Edition of the Booker Prizewinner
- Publisher:
- Oneworld Publications, 06/2024
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780861545582
- Item number:
- 11833969
- Volume:
- 720 Pages
- Edition number:
- 24000
- Ausgabe:
- Reissue B-format
- Weight:
- 532 g
- Format:
- 194 x 127 mm
- Thickness:
- 47 mm
- Release date:
- 6.6.2024
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
A SPECIAL EDITION OF THE 2015 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER, WITH A BRAND-NEW FOREWORD AND A Q&A WITH THE AUTHOR
* With a new foreword by Bernardine Evaristo *
* One of the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' *
Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing.
The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught.
InA Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James reimagines the story behind this near-mythical event, chronicling the lives of a host of unforgettable characters from street kids, drug lords and journalists, to prostitutes and secret service agents.
Gripping, inventive and ambitious, it is one of the most mesmerising and influential novels of the twenty-first century.
'Showcases the extraordinary capabilities of a writer whose importance can scarcely be questioned' Independent
Biography
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. James lives in Minneapolis. He is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015.
