A Brief History of Seven Killings*WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015* JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marleys house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters

Arthur's jealous older brother

Her years there as a scholarship girl ended in a double tragedy: the drownings of her two roommates

With doodle

A powerful debut by a highly original young novelist

Could their separate inquiries in fact be linked

In a Strange Room is an extraordinary evocation of one man's search for love

He's afraid

The hardback edition includes more than 400 illustrations

from a new generation of readers to those already highly familiar with the canon

who dreams night and day of escape and of revenge

1745-1805) and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid Each of the translations in this book can be read for its own sake or as part of a triptych

she finds herself drawn inexorably into more and more danger