There are enormous rewards to be found in A Brief History of Seven Killings – a many-voiced kaleidoscopic history of Jamaica’s gang violenceMarlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings,reviewed – bloody conflicts in 70s JamaicaWith such disparate books on the shortlist, the judges’ task this year seemed even more difficult than normal. How to choose between a formally experimental history of violence in Jamaica, and Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings,and a deeply humane realist novel about migration from Asia to England, Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways? Related: Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015 Continue reading...
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