The brief history of seven killings

This story is not narrated by heroes and this story has no protagonist. Its backed by prisoners, kidnappers, drug addicts, gangsters, even ghosts  and their brief ( literally and metaphorically )accounts that lead up to the attempted assassination of the singer Bob Marley. This novel is difficult to read with about hundred characters that I had to literally flip pages back and forth every now and then to keep a track of; with the unfamiliar Jamaican lingo and intricate political details and awareness of the era. But Marlon James deftly spanned decades and countries and characters, exploring the horrendous events and time and its bloody aftermath.  We witness injustice,  radicalism,  racism, slave trade, violence, abusive behavior  and ugly truth of money and power.  A unique thing was that every unit is after name of a song and every chapter after name of a character narrating it; so there's a whirlwind of different voices that continuously seperates and interwines as the story unfolds. Although the plot alternates between disparate perspectives we can clearly see through the seven gangsters who allied with the Jamaican labor party and are against the incumbent government, their riffs to ensure people vote for their party in upcoming elections. One of the member is convinced that the Singer is going to start a new Rastafarian party that will render their party meaningless.  Not all the members are up for the violence but then there are revelatory backstories and misguided political milieu intercrossing herewith. Although the novel is humongous and has constantly confusing narrative, at the end the reading will be worth the effort. A very big thanks to the friend who gifted this,  afterall books are the gifts one can open again and again.