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A Brief History of Seven Killings: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 by Marlon James
Category: Fiction
JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and ...Show more
A Brief History of Seven Killings: Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize by Marlon James
Category: Fiction
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to ...Show more
A Brief History of Seven Killings: Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize by Marlon James
Category: Fiction
One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 - Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book Named a best book of the year by: "The New York Times""Chicago Tribune""The Washington Post""The Boston Globe""Time""Newsweek""The Huffington Post""The Seattle Times""The Houston Chronicl ...Show more
A Brief History of Seven Killings: Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize by Marlon James
Category: True Crime
On 3 December 1976, just weeks before the general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house with machine guns blazing. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert, but the nex ...Show more
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Category: Fiction
"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together t ...Show more
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy #1) by Marlon James
Category: Fiction | Series: Dark Star Trilogy Ser.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter - and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the boy. Following the lost boy's scent ...Show more
Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015. Jamaica, 1976- Seven men storm Bob Marley's house with machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but leaves Jamaica the following day, not to return for two years. Inspired by this near-mythic event, A Brief History of Seven Killings is an imagined oral bi ...Show more
John Crow's Devil by Marlon James
Category: Fiction
The debut novel of the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 Jamaica, 1957 On a day beginning with a bad omen - black vultures, known locally as John Crows, crash through the local church windows - a handsome and charismatic stranger drags the village preacher from his pulpit and takes over both church an ...Show more
Moon Witch, Spider King (Dark Star Trilogy #2) by Marlon James
Category: Fiction
The second novel in Marlon James's revolutionary DARK STAR TRILOGYIn this mighty follow-up to his number one bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Booker-winner Marlon James once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to tell the story of Sogolon the Moon Witch. Part adv ...Show more
Moon Witch, Spider King: Dark Star Trilogy 2 by Marlon James
Category: Fiction | Series: Dark Star Trilogy
The second book in the Dark Star Trilogy, after Black Leopard Red Wolf - a spectacular, genre-redefining literary fantasy novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In this stunning follow-up to Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of A ...Show more
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Category: Fiction
By the Man Booker-winning author Marlon James, this is the powerful story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women - a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt - recognize a dark force ...Show more
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