Screen LibraryA brief history of seven killings : a novel /
"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"--
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA),
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the singer's house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but much has been whispered, gossiped, and sung about in the streets of West Kingston. A Brief History of Seven Killings delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond.-- from jacket |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781594486005 159448600X |
| Index Number: | PR9265 |
| CLC: | I754.45 |
| Call Number: | I754.45/J282 |