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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner)

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

James 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 Black Leopard, Red Wolf

In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines brilliant storytelling with his unrivaled...

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