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'''Shortlisted for Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize'''
On December 3rd 1976 a group of armed men go to Bob Marley's Jamaican home in Hope Road on a mission to kill 'The Singer'. No one will be arrested for it but that doesn't mean their lives afterwards will be normal. This is a total fictionalisation of their story and therefore the story of the people of the Jamaican ghettoes: the politics, the unrest, the gang warfare and the death.
[[:CatergoryCategory:Marlon James|Marlon James]] was a young child in the Jamaica of 1976, sheltered in a middle class suburb. He is keen to point out that the hardly mentioned safety of these suburbs is as valid a part of Jamaica as the more widely publicised impoverished Jungle district. In interviews Marlon also highlights the huge differences between the two types of upbringing. The first time he heard a gunshot was as an adult in an American theatre (it being part of the play he was watching). The first time a child in the Jamaican ghettoes hears a gunshot, they're too young to talk.
The latter experiences were of more interest to Marlon than the mundane everyday. In writing about them he's fashioned the murder attempt on Marley into a literary pivot and has created something that isn't just un-everyday; it's brilliant.
Further Reading: If you'd like to read more of this year's Man Booker hopefuls, try [[The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota]], [[The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma]] or [[A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler]].
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