10. Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Book of Night Women, James’ haunting novel set on a Jamaican slave plantation at the turn of the 19th Century, involved a secret sisterhood of slave women fomenting revolt. A Brief History of Seven Killings begins during another politically fraught time in Montego Bay in 1959 but the novel’s central moment is the assassination attempt on Bob Marley in December 1976. James ranges forward from 1970s Kingston to the crack houses of Brooklyn in the 1980s and ‘90s. James speaks in an astonishing range of voices, including politicians, journalists, CIA agents, assassins, druglords and underlings, in this virtuoso performance of a novel. (Riverhead)
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