Louis Amis

A Jamaican civil war, with cameos from Bob Marley

A review of A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James. This novel breaks new ground in its language, which oscillates between various stations on the ‘creole continuum'

Bob Marley posed in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1976 (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images)
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  • A Brief History of Seven Killings

    Marlon James

    One World, pp. 686

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