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Η ΣΥΝΤΟΜΗ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΕΠΤΑ ΦΟΝΩΝ
Στις 3 του Δεκέμβρη του 1976 δυο αυτοκίνητα σταματούν έξω από το σπίτι του Μπομπ Μάρλεϊ, στο Κίνγκστον της Τζαμάικας. Βγαίνουν από μέσα επτά τύποι με όπλα -ή μήπως οκτώ;- ορμούν στο σπίτι του τραγουδιστή και με 56 πυροβολισμούς επιχειρούν να τον δολοφονήσουν, αλλά δεν τα καταφέρνουν. Οι δράστες παρέμειναν άγνωστοι και ασύλληπτοι. Με επίκεντρο αυτό το γεγονός ο Μάρλον Τζέιμς γράφει μια ιστορία που ούτε σύντομη είναι ούτε μόνο επτά φόνους αφορά. Στην ιστορία εμπλέκονται πράκτορες μυστικών υπηρεσιών, γκάνγκστερ, έμποροι ναρκωτικών, πολιτικοί,...
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(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS
JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters - slum kids, drug lords, journalists, prostitutes, gunmen and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising,...
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(P/B) THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN
This is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women - a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt - recognize a dark force in her that they treat with both reverence and fear. But as Lilith comes of age and begins to understand her own feelings and identity, she dares to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman. And as rebellions simmer and unspoken jealousies intensify, Lilith's powers a...
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(P/B) JOHN CROW'S DEVIL
Jamaica, 1957 On a day beginning with a bad omen - black vultures, known locally as John Crows, crash through the local church windows - a handsome and charismatic stranger drags the village preacher from his pulpit and takes over both church and congregation. Promising vengeance and damnation, he wastes no time delivering both, and in doing so starts a power struggle that sets the village of Gibbeah on a path to destruction. With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, John...
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(P/B) THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON
'They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?' 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth. For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a plant...
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(H/B) THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON
1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth. For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a plantation in Jamaica, and it ends in a grand house in London, where a beautiful woman waits to be freed. But through her fevered confessions, one bu...
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(H/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS
On 3 December 1976, just weeks before the general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house with machine guns blazing. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert, but the next day he left the country, and didn't return for two years. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston, with information surfacing at odd times,...
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