A Brief History of Seven Killings: Special 10th Anniversary Edition of the Booker Prizewinner (Paperback) - Marlon James

The extraordinary modern classic, reissued ten years after it exploded onto the literary scene

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 *

'Epic in every sense of the word' New York Times

Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing.

The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught.

In A 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

About the Author

MARLON JAMES was born in Jamaica. He is the author of John Crow's Devil (Oneworld, 2015), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and The Book of Night Women (Oneworld, 2009), which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld, 2014), won the Booker Prize in 2015, the American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Fiction Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction, and the Green Carnation Prize, and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Marlon James is also the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first book in his Dark Star Trilogy and a National Book Award finalist, and its sequel, Moon Witch, Spider King.