Winner of the 2015 Booker

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Name: A Brief History of Seven Killings
ISBN: 159448600X

Recorded edition: Riverhead Books; Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) · 2014 · ISBN 159448600X · Edition source

Approximately 688 pages

Estimated reading time: 18–23 hours at 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate.

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What is this book about?

Marlon James’s third novel connects the attempt on Bob Marley’s life in Jamaica in 1976 with events unfolding in the following decades. Its scope extends to New York’s crack trade during the 1980s and back to Jamaica in the 1990s. Riverhead published the novel in 2014.