The winner of the 2015 Man Booker prize,Marlon James, talks approximately returning to 1970s Jamaica and reads from A Brief History of Seven KillingsIn the week that Marlon James became the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker prize, and he joins us to discuss the making of his novel,A Brief History of Seven Killings, which is based on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 when James was just six years old. He tells us approximately his research into the novel's gangland setting, and recalls how he found a language of the ghetto and built himself a dictionary,and reveals the significance of the number seven ...
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Source: theguardian.com