A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
Literary Fiction / Historical Fiction
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
—· 704 p· 2014
Booker Prizedarktensehaunting
Overview
About
"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"--
Pages
704
Malpaso
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Narration10
Historical Political Violence10
Multiple Voice Structure10
Prose9
Worldbuilding8
Emotional depth8
Plot twists7
Pacing7
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