A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Taste attributes: crimehistoricalpoliticalmafia/gangsterfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticintricateglossyemotive & stirringsocial commentaryinjustice/tragedy/vengeancecomplex relationship
Boxlist takeStirring and fresh: a dark crime novel. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.4 / 5
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About This Book
"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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- Marlon James
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 704
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