MARLON JAMES’s unflinching new novel A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS centers on the people involved in the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976. The story includes a breathtaking array of voices: gang members, CIA agents, a Rolling Stone reporter, girlfriends, politicians, drug dealers, the children of the Kingston ghettos, even ghosts. This vast range of characters allows James to conjure the individual lives touched by the sweeping US-Jamaica exchange of music, drugs, sex, and violence during the 1970s.
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