Man Booker Prize Awarded to Marlon James
Marlon James has become the first Jamaican winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, announced on October 13, 2015. James reports that he was so frustrated with the publishing world that he almost gave up writing a decade ago.
His novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, deals with repercussions following an attempt on the life of Bob Marley in 1976. The New York Times described it as "sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex".
Michael Wood, chair of the judging committee commented that the novel is "very exciting, very violent, full of swearing. It was a book we didn’t actually have any difficulty deciding on – it was a unanimous decision, a little bit to our surprise".
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Audiobook
• eBook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Other books on the shortlist were:
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The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
• eBook
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• eBook
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Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
• Audiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
This book is not scheduled for publication in Canada until March 2016, but you may place a hold now.
Related post: 2015 Man Booker Prize Longlist
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