A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Marlon James
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Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
On 3 December 1976, just weeks before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house.
Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston.
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- Graham
- 30-11-15
Spoiled by detailed violence
I would have appreciated this more if half the length and the essential violence (that sustains the atmosphere and fuels the plot) left more to the imagination than described in the details here. It is a problem with audio books that it is difficult to skip passages that you can see on skimming that you don't want to read. By the end of the book I could see why this won the Man Booker prize
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- Mrs. L. Lawson
- 20-10-16
Confused
I found this book hard to read. It's was very confusing at time. I would not have carry on if I'd was not a book club book
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- Jay dee
- 19-06-19
Totally brilliant
It's very long, it's hard to get into but it's soooo worth it. I got on a lot better when I went back to the begning armed with a google search of the full cast list and a quick brush up on Jamaican patois.
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- Mark
- 04-05-16
Unique
A rare experience - a book and a reading that create a new genre. Totally absorbing and hauntingly memorable.
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- markj
- 04-02-16
Stunning
I'm delighted when I come across and audiobook which is likely to be better than the book in written form. This is a perfect example: the performances are astounding. The story is gripping and clearly a worthy Booker Prize winner.
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- King' OB.
- 09-04-19
Murder.
Genre stretching. Mind warping. Culture hacking. Ghetto Crashing. Mythology mashing. Discourse distressing. Sexy radical. Dubble funny.
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- J Z A
- 01-12-15
A well deserved Booker winner
The book was fascinating and unexpected from start to finish. All the characters were well drawn and the rotating narrator was an excellent way of shining a light in the various facets of the tale.
Not for the faint hearted as it is a tale of violence and ghetto life from which no one is exonerated. Everybody has to get by and it is what you do to thrive or survive that defines you.
Excellent.
Highly recommended.
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- David
- 26-02-25
Thrilling Story
A brief History of Seven Killings is a very well written and read audio book. The book kept me hooked for fifteen hours.
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- Chris Sampson
- 26-11-16
Exhausting but worth it.
Well, feel like I have just been through World War 3, but what poetry bedren.
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- Jonathan
- 06-06-17
Great Book! Terrible Accents
This is a great story but it is let down here by too many generic Caribbean accents. Non Jamaicans may not notice but, to anyone who does know, the errors in pronunciation, inflection and intonation were painful to hear. I very nearly gave up listening as a result.
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