Marlon James: 8 books

Book cover of John Crow's Devil
by Marlon James
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005

The incredible debut novel from 2015 Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James "A powerful first novel . . . Writing with assurance and control, James uses his small-town drama to suggest the larger anguish of a postcolonial society struggling for its own identity." --New York Times Book Review...
Book cover of Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

The New York Times Bestseller "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel, an African Game...
Book cover of A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014

**Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times** A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard,...
Book cover of The Book of Night Women
by Marlon James
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009

From the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity...
Book cover of Breve história de sete assassinatos
by Marlon James
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 28, 2017

Em 3 de dezembro de 1976, às vésperas das eleições na Jamaica e dois dias antes de Bob Marley realizar o show Smile Jamaica para aliviar as tensões políticas em Kingston, sete homens não identificados invadiram a casa do cantor com metralhadoras em punho. O ataque feriu Marley, a esposa e o...
Book cover of Being Gay in Jamaica
by Marlon James
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016

Today the book of a long secret will be told. This book tells the massacre and slaughter of the gay community and how it is done. How state and church are in agreement to make one country gay free. From the most homophobic country on earth comes the new and must read book. The truth about the gay...
Book cover of Breve historia de siete asesinatos

Breve historia de siete asesinatos

A Brief History of Seven Killings

by Marlon James, Wendy Guerra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 4, 2016

Construida sobre los testimonios ficticios de quienes participaron en aquellos acontecimientos (sicarios, mafiosos, políticos o espías; víctimas y verdugos; simples espectadores e, incluso, algún fantasma), "Breve historia de siete asesinatos" nos lleva al corazón de las tinieblas jamaicanas...
Book cover of Race and Reconciliation in America
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
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