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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner)
By Marlon James
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Bob Marley’s name is almost synonymous with Jamaica, but less known are the multiple attempts made to assasinate him. Marlon James’ Booker Prize-winning novel drops us into a new world and never lets us go. This is a wild — and beautifully written — story.
Winner of the Booker Prize
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Decade
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of The Disappearers, a finalist for the 2026 Booker Prize
In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines brilliant s...
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Decade
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of The Disappearers, a finalist for the 2026 Booker Prize
In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines brilliant s...
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