A Brief History of Seven Killings

　　1976年12月3日牙買加正值大選前夕的緊張時期，雷鬼教父鮑伯•馬雷正準備登台演出，就在此時，七名蒙面歹徒闖入了馬雷家中，馬雷和他的妻子及經紀人等人都受了傷。官方並未公布槍手身分，但謠言卻喧囂直上。

　　本書大膽寫出此年代牙買加的動盪不安，而書中各角色包含殺手、毒販、記者甚至不知名幽靈人物，都透過作者筆下再度重現，廣受國外媒體推崇，被讚譽為傑出之作。（文／博客來編譯）

　　In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and his meticulous eye for detail to forge a novel of dazzling ambition and scope.

　　On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven unnamed gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but rumors abounded regarding the assassins’ fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is James’s fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica’s history and beyond. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, drug dealers, journalists, and even ghosts—James brings to life the people who walked the streets of 1970s Kingston, who dominated the crack houses of 1980s New York, and who reemerged into a radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Brilliantly inventive, A Brief History of Seven Killings is an “exhilarating” (The New York Times) epic that’s been called “a tour de force” (The Wall Street Journal).