James, Marlon, 1970-

A brief history of seven killings : a novel / Marlon James. - First Riverhead hardcover edition. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2014. - xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm

"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"--

9781594486005


Marley, Bob--Assassination attempts--Fiction.


Assassins--Fiction.
Oral history--Fiction.
Reggae musicians--Jamaica--Fiction.
Rastafarians--Jamaica--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Historical.


Jamaica--History--1962---Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PR9265.9. / J358 B2014