A brief history of seven killings - fiction

[MarkY]

One of the best books I've read in a long time but don't expect too wide angle of a view of Jamaica - it feels focused on certain Jamaican gangsters, expanding somewhat around that. Each chapter is 1st-person narration, but a different character narrates each chapter, bouncing between characters from chapter to chapter, some getting lots of chapters, others getting just a few. The variety of characters and situations from the 70s in Jamaica to the 80s in New York is quite a kaleidoscope. I love the language (Jamaican speech) and perspectives you get from the author going inside these characters' heads. I feel like I learned something about Jamaican personalities and attitudes but from odd slices of its society.

Marlon James wrote a fascinating essay about his life in Jamaica and need to leave it. It made me see one of most important characters in the book a bit differently:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/ma...to-myself.html