Happy Birthday, Bob Marley!

The long-awaited paperback reissue of Booker–Prize Winner Marlon James's debut novel.

—Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings.

—Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize

"A powerful first novel . . . Writing with assurance and control, James uses his small-town drama to suggest

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Black Nationalist pioneer and first Hero of Jamaica Marcus Garvey is discussed by contemporaries, historians, family, and friends. Garvey was a victim of his own success - he threatened the establishment enough for the FBI to infiltrate the organization.

"Is me--Bob. Bob Marley." Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley, no one but his long-ago love, the deaf woman, Leenah, and, in the way of this otherworldly book, when Bob steps into the street each day, five years...