A Brief History of Seven Killings
- ISBN-10
- 159448600X
- ISBN-13
- 9781594486005
- Series
- A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 688
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Marlon James
Description
"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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