The Jamaican author Marlon James wins the Man Booker Prize. James gets the main prize of the British literary world for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings , which is engaged in an attack on the world-famous musician Bob Marley in December 1967th
The novel describes how Bob Marley is, raided two days before a concert, that would solve the political tensions in Jamaica at his home by men with machine guns. Marley survived and occurs at the concert. Thereafter, however, he leaves his native country for several years. James can reminisce these events in a kind of biography narrated by ghosts, murderers, victims, politicians, drug dealers, FBI agents and beauty queens. The plot of the book has several decades and told so by the recent history of Jamaica.
Critics have the book with the consciousness streams of William Faulkner and the violent films of Quentin Tarantino compared. James himself leads the other hand Charles Dickens as a source of inspiration.
Marlon James was born in 1970, A Brief History of Seven Killings is his third novel. James is the first Jamaican author who wins the Man Booker Prize. James said he hope that the literature in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean by his victory will be more attention paid. “I think there are some brand new voices that explore the contemporary society that explore what policy behind what’s behind colonialism.”
On the short list for Rates were also Tom McCarthy, Chigozie Obioma, Sunjeev Sahota, and Anne Tyler Hanya Yanagihara. The prize is awarded every year. Last year, the Australian author Richard Flanagan had won the prize.
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