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Endeavor Careers – Dream … Endeavor… Achieve 2 The Genesis October 2015-Issue-II Current Affairs A Brief History of Seven Killings wins 2015 Man Booker Prize 3 India, States 6, 11 World 12 Sports 15 Man Booker: 3 Economy 17 The winning novel was inspired by the attempted Corporate 21 assassination of Bob Marley in 1976, when the reggae Cyber Buzz 26 legend was shot and injured a few days before a peace Science & Technology 27 concert amid fierce political violence in Jamaica … People Faces: Angus Deaton 14 Business Biography: Ralph Lauren 20 Knowledge Corners Books 4 GD: Unfair to blame telecom companies for call drops 28 Business Biography: 20 Crossword 29 Ralph Lauren, the quintessential American Sudoku 36 designer who built a fashion empire based on sweeping Do you remember? 30 fantasies of country-club prep and the Wild West, is Corporate Knowledge Quiz 29 stepping down from his post as CEO of his eponymous Point‐Counterpoint 35 company… Ahmedabad CO & Centre: 101, Suyojan Towers, Near. 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James uses the assassination attempt is the starting point for his book, and events then unfold over three decades, telling the stories of drug barons, MPs, gunmen, beauty queens, journalists and even the CIA. James said he wanted to make a “reasonably educated guess” about what had become of the seven young men who tried to kill Marley, his family and his band. The book has attracted attention for the violence and swearing that reflect the tumultuous period.The story is told from the perspectives of 76 different characters and runs to 680 pages. The “Brief History” part of the title, he ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’by Marlon James was jokes, was “based on those Concise Oxford Dictionaries - on October 13 named as the winner of the 2015 Man which are always four inches thick”. Booker Prize for Fiction.The 44-year-old, now resident in Minneapolis, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize What the reviewers say in its 47-year history. “Seven Killings resembles James Ellroy’s LA Quartet in The book published by Oneworld Publications is a 686- its blistering violence, multiple voices and its page epic with over 75 characters and voices. Set in determination to redo history ‘from the gutter to the star’, Kingston, where James was born, the book is a fictional to borrow a phrase used by Ellroy.”– The Telegraph history of the attempted murder of Bob Marley in 1976. “A Brief History is sometimes more impressive than it is The 2015 Shortlist comprised Marlon James (Jamaica) for easily enjoyable - a difficult book with a stop-start A Brief History of Seven Killings; Tom McCarthy (UK) structure that doesn’t quite sweep you up in the way the for Satin Island; Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) for The single narrative voices of the previous novels did.”– The Fishermen; Sunjeev Sahota (UK) for The Year of the Guardian Runaways; Anne Tyler (US) for A Spool of Blue Thread and Hanya Yanagihara (US) by A Little Life. “This is a book the energy, intelligence and intellectual range of which demands and rewards attention... It About the book showcases the extraordinary capabilities of a writer whose importance can scarcely be questioned, even if his mode The winning novel was inspired by the attempted of address will exclude some.”– The Independent assassination of Bob Marley in 1976, when the reggae legend was shot and injured a few days before a peace “Epic, immersive, acutely observed and deeply moving, concert amid fierce political violence in Jamaica. it’s worth every long hour it demands of the reader.”– Huffington Post Marley was well enough to go ahead with the concert - but the attack, which also wounded his wife and some “Though brilliant as a literary accomplishment, James’s friends, led Marley to leave Jamaica and declare the work is frequently hard going in reading terms, given the country was a “rotten egg that had broken, and couldn’t outsized stew of players and motives and the hyped-up be put back together again”. prose that conveys it all... But, in giving us the fullest sense of this world, it proves to be a risk worth running.”– He later said the assassination attempt may have been New Statesman “the best thing that ever happened to me”, explaining: “It forced me to leave Jamaica and for the first time in my “It’s like a Tarantino remake of “The Harder They life I feel free.” Come”, but with a soundtrack by Bob Marley and a script www.endeavorcareers.com October 2015-Issue-II THE GENESIS Endeavor Careers – Dream … Endeavor… Achieve 4 by Oliver Stone and William Faulkner...epic in every Review: “It provokes and beguiles and, at the point of sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, revelation, it withholds. On finishing it, you will have the colossal and dizzyingly complex.” – New York Times powerful urge to throw it across the room, then the powerful urge to pick it up to read again.”– The ‘It is a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime Telegraph and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about. It moves at a terrific pace and will come to be The Fishermen: Chigozie Obioma seen as a classic of our times.’– Award jury Four young brothers in a small Nigerian town take advantage of their father’s absence to go fishing at a About the author forbidden river. But there they encounter a madman, who Born in 1970 in Kingston, Jamaica, James is the son of a makes a prophecy that the eldest will be killed by one of police detective. Now 44, he teaches creative writing in his brothers. Minnesota in the United States. The Fishermen is Chigozie His first novel was rejected by 78 publishers and agents. Obioma’s first novel. Born in He initially gave up on writing and deleted and destroyed 1986 in Akure, Nigeria, all copies of the manuscript - before eventually searching Obioma has written short for it and finding it in an email outbox. stories. He has lived in Nigeria, Cyprus and Turkey, His debut published novel was John Crow’s Devil. His and now in the US. second, The Book of Night Women, won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a finalist for the The judges said: “Obioma’s 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award. The Fishermen is the captivating tale of the tragic He is now researching and writing a novel set in the 11th unravelling of a family in Century. “I’m a big student of the Dark Ages,” he says. modern day Nigeria. He imbues the story with a “Not just in Europe, but in all the other countries where it compelling sense of deep-rooted and unstoppable definitely was not dark. So I’m going to spend some inevitability, writing with striking maturity for a young quality time in that period for a little bit.” first-time writer.” Other contenders Review: “The Fishermen is an elegy to lost promise, to a golden age squandered, and yet it remains hopeful about Satin Island: Tom McCarthy the redemptive possibilities of a new generation - what I Set in contemporary London, Satin Island tells the story like to call the ‘post-nationalist generation’, described as of U - a “corporate anthropologist” working for an elite ‘egrets’ in the book: harbingers of a bright future.”– The consultancy who embarks on a Guardian data-gathering project to help The Year of the Runaways: Sunjeev Sahota “decode and manipulate the world around them”. A group of immigrant Indian labourers share a dilapidated house in McCarthy was born in 1969 and Sheffield in search of a new life. grew up in London. His books include Remainder (2006), Men in Sahota was one of is a Granta’s Best Space (2007), and C (2010) - of British Novelist 2013.