- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781405972710
- Price: £16.00
The Disappearers
The Times, 'Praise for A Brief History of Seven Killings'This seething, hot, violent, action-packed novel is enormous in every sense. The ambition is huge, but [James] pulls it off with huge style, confidence, imagination and wit . . . Extraordinary
Ebony, 'Praise for A Brief History of Seven Killings'The way James uses language is amazing . . . Vigorous, intricate and captivating, [it] is hard to put down
Independent, 'Praise for A Brief History of Seven Killings'Extraordinary . . . James’s writing can be at once punchy and lyrical; can alternate strange, dreamy poetry with visceral action; and can bring persuasive life to a kaleidoscopic range of characters
Irvine Welsh, 'Praise for A Brief History of Seven Killings'A vivid plunge into a crazed, violent and corrupt world . . . executed with swaggering aplomb. The most original novel I’ve read in years
New York Times, 'Praise for A Brief History of Seven Killings'Epic in every sense of that word’
About Marlon James
Marlon James is the author of the New York Times bestselling Moon Witch, Spider King; the Sunday Times bestselling, National Book Award-finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf; the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings; The Book of Night Women and John Crow's Devil. In addition to the Booker Prize, his novels have won the American Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Born in Jamaica, Marlon James now lives in New York City.
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