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*Winner of the Man Booker prize 2015* Jamaica, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's 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 - slum kids, drug lords, journalists, prostitutes, gunmen and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising, A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable and extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century.
Forlag Oneworld
Utgivelsesår 2015
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9781780746357
EAN 9781780746357
Omtalt tid 1960-1999
Omtalt person Bob Marley
Språk Engelsk
Sider 688
Utgave 1
Tildelt litteraturpris Booker-prisen 2015
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Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketIn the ghetto there is no such thing as peace. There is only this fact. Your power to kill me can only be stop by my power to kill you.
Can people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time, and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need to not be.
A cancer is a rebellion, a cell gone rogue against the body with turncoats turning the other way and seducing parts of you to do the same. I will divide your parts and conquer. I will shut down your limbs one by one, and spill poison in your bones because look, there is nothing in me but blackness.
Politicians rise in the east and set in the west and nothing you can change about them.
It's the slowness that gets you, the feeling that there is still time to do something, to get out, to run, to close your eyes and thing of Treasure Beach. You have all the time in the world. Because when this happens it's your fault. Why didn't you get out? Why didn't you leave? The policeman hears my mind and stomps the gas, raising the stakes. Why don't you get out? Why don't you leave? If you open the door and jump out, just grab your knees and roll until you stop.
You want to scream stop the fucking car and take the fucking pussy and be done with it, because that sounds tough, like it's almost touch enough to scare them a little, but you know words like that could never come from a mouth like yours.
I want to say sorry, I'm too busy thinking about how women in 1976 either get herself fucked or fucked over by a man but instead I say,
- Excuse me?
The sun is jumping ship and evening's coming. But this country needs a good disco.
Bookerprisen (engelsk navn: «Booker Prize for Fiction» og «Man Booker Prize») blir årlig utdelt til den beste romanen skrevet på engelsk og utgitt i Storbritannia (tidligere begrenset til innbyggere i Samveldet, Irland og Zimbabwe). Prisen ble innstiftet av bokhandlerkjeden Booker plc i 1968. For å bevare prisens eksklusivitet velger man ut jurymedlemmer blant kritikere, forfattere og akademikere. Siden 2002 har prisen også blitt omtalt som «Man Booker Prize» for å reflektere at prisen blir sponset av et investeringsselskap, Man Group plc.
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