Name: A Brief History of Seven Killings
SKU: 47079568
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Author: Marlon James
ISBN: 9781594633942

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Marlon James

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

704

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x13.7x4.3 cm

Weight

0.61 kg.

ISBN13

9781594633942

Edition No.

Synopsis "A Brief History of Seven Killings "

Winner of the Man Booker Prize One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A "thrilling, ambitious . . . intense" (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and his meticulous eye for detail to forge a novel of dazzling ambition and scope. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven unnamed gunmen stormed the singer's house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but rumors abounded regarding the assassins' fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is James's fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters--assassins, drug dealers, journalists, and even ghosts--James brings to life the people who walked the streets of 1970s Kingston, who dominated the crack houses of 1980s New York, and who reemerged into a radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Brilliantly inventive, A Brief History of Seven Killings is an "exhilarating" (The New York Times) epic that's been called "a tour de force" (The Wall Street Journal).

Marlon James

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Marlon James es un escritor jamaiquino, nacido en Kingston en 1970, reconocido como una de las voces más potentes y originales de la literatura contemporánea en lengua inglesa. Estudió Lengua y Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de las Indias Occidentales y posteriormente obtuvo una maestría en Escritura Creativa en la Universidad Wilkes, en Estados Unidos. Antes de dedicarse por completo a la escritura, trabajó durante varios años como profesor.

Alcanzó reconocimiento internacional con la novela A Brief History of Seven Killings (Breve historia de siete asesinatos), obra con la que ganó el Man Booker Prize en 2015. Esta novela, ambiciosa y polifónica, recrea la violencia política y social de Jamaica en los años setenta, mezclando historia, ficción, múltiples voces narrativas y un lenguaje crudo y experimental. Otras obras destacadas de su narrativa son John Crow’s Devil, The Book of Night Women y la trilogía fantástica Dark Star, que reinterpreta mitologías africanas desde una perspectiva moderna.

La escritura de Marlon James se caracteriza por su intensidad, complejidad estructural y exploración de temas como el poder, la violencia, la identidad, la sexualidad y la herencia colonial. Actualmente reside en Estados Unidos, donde también ejerce como profesor universitario y continúa desarrollando una obra literaria influyente y provocadora.

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