Goings-on in the Tivoli Gardens
Christopher Tayler: Marlon James, 5 November 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James.
Oneworld, 688 pp., £8.99, June 2015,978 1 78074 635 7 Show More
by Marlon James.
Oneworld, 688 pp., £8.99, June 2015,
“... myself I’m Gay Talese again.’ ‘The ones who come and go’, in James’s telling, include a young woman called Nina Burgess, who’s had a one night stand with Marley; Barry Diflorio, a CIA man; and Alex. The rest are gangsters, and the bigger picture they open up is a view from the ground of the working relationship between organised crime and Jamaican ... ”