Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize! On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years.Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts "A Brief History of Seven Killings" is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this...
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2022-01-21
Betyg 
An absolute must-read for anyone intesrested in the recent history and culture of the island of Jamaica. Fantastically alive with vivid charachter portraits that keep evolving, as does the story - where nothing can be anticipated or taken for granted. An excellent book!
2018-07-26
Betyg
Det är som tv serien Sopranos men lite våldsammare, i bokform och i en mycket mer intressant miljö. Den tar ett tag att komma in i men när man väl har kommit in i den så är det svårt att sluta.
