James, Marlon, 1970-

A brief history of seven killings / Brief history of 7 killings. Marlon James. - xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm.

"A novel"--Jacket.

"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"--

ISBN: 9781594486005 (hbk.) 159448600X (hbk.) 9781594633942 (tr. pbk.)

LCCN: 2014018475

Subjects--Personal Names:
Marley, Bob--Assassination attempts--Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Assassins--Fiction.
Oral history--Fiction.
Reggae musicians--Jamaica--Fiction.
Rastafarians--Jamaica--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Jamaica--History--1962---Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction--2015.

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6