MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2015

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: WIRED, GQ, BBC CULTURE, NEW YORK TIMES, Michiko Kakutani, WASHINGTON POST, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, TIME PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AMAZON, HUFFINGTON POST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, NEWSWEEK, WALL STREET JOURNAL, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, LIBRARY JOURNAL BOOKPAGE, POPSUGAR, BUZZFEED, SALON, Laura Miller, KANSAS CITY STAR, L MAGAZINE, SEATTLE TIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, JAMAICA.

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 crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – slum kids, one-night stands, drug lords, girlfriends, gunmen, journalists, and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising, A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable and extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century.

Author Biography
MARLON JAMES was born in Jamaica. He is the author of The Book of Night Women (Oneworld, 2009), which won the Dayton Literary PeacePrize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the NationalBook Critics Circle Award. His debut novel, John Crow's Devil (Oneworld, 2015), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. His third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld 2014), won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and featured in over twenty best books of the year lists. His short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Esquire and Granta. He teaches at Macalester College, Minnesota, USA.