A Brief History of Seven Killings
novel by James
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He won for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), which tells a fictionalized account of the attempted murder of reggae legend Bob Marley in 1976. Winning the Booker was a major career triumph for James, whose first novel, John Crow’s Devil (2005), had been rejected about 80…
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