Words Wednesday: Marlon James
Happy Words Wednesday!
Have you read last year’s Man Booker prize winner A Brief History of Seven Killings? Today we are featuring a quote from its author, Marlon James.
Published in 2014, A Brief History of Seven Killings is Marlon James’ third novel and follows the events leading up to and following the assassination attempt on Bob Marley’s life.
With incredibly unique characters, multiple Englishes, and a sweeping storyline, A Brief History of Seven Killings is a “post-post-colonial” look at the complexity of Jamaican and American history, society, and pop culture.
James is the first and only Jamaican-born author to have won the Man Booker Prize.
“If it no go so, it go near so.”
-A Jamaican proverb featured in the epigraph of Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings
Read about A Brief History of Seven Killings in Marlon James’ own words.
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