Marlon James is a Jamaican-born writer. He has published three novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009) and A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Now living in Minneapolis, James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents who were both in the Jamaican police: his mother (who gave him his first prose book, a collection of stories by O. Henry) became a detective and his father (from whom James took a love of Shakespeare and Coleridge) a lawyer. James is a 1991 graduate of the University of the West Indies, where he read Language and Literature. He received a master's degree in creative writing from Wilkes University (2006).
James has taught English and creative writing at Macalester College since 2007. His first novel, John Crow's Devil — which was rejected 70 times before being accepted for publication — tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, is about a slave woman's revolt in a Jamaican plantation in the early 19th century. His most recent novel, 2014's A Brief History of Seven Killings, explores several decades of Jamaican history and political instability through the perspectives of many narrators. It won the fiction category of the 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, having been the first book by a Jamaican author ever to be shortlisted. He is the second Caribbean winner of the prize, following Trinidad-born V. S. Naipaul who won in 1971.
发表于2024-11-21
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每年年底我都从自己一年的阅读书单中挑选出最爱的一本,推荐给我最好的文友们,比如《大师与玛格丽特》《弗农小上帝》《时间与河流》《我母亲的自传》,等等。 2017年虽然刚刚过半,但我深信,即使到年底,我依然会认为《七杀简史》是我今年读到的最棒的小说了。 ...
评分难看。选材难看,用词难看,脏话不是问题,问题是你为什么说脏话,这个动机很难看。 每一句脏话都和女性生殖器密切相关。让我很是怀疑,牙买加男人是不是嘴上不挂女性生殖器没法说话。词语多贫乏,人的精神就有多野蛮。 布克奖的态度严肃吗?并不。至少这一届不是。七杀简史取...
评分读《七杀简史》的过程,是一种感觉随时可能“失控”的过程,是的,你随时感觉快要跟不上故事的节奏和线索了,读这本小说,你要么不读,要读就不能间断太多,得快些读完,否则就会再捧起读了一半的书时,有种千头万绪不知从何处开始的感觉。同时,这也是一本品味上独特的小说,...
评分本篇不含剧透,没看过书的也可以放心看。 因为深受美国文化影响,牙买加的黑道教父们也被称为唐。不同于《教父》中冷酷优雅的暴力,贫民窟的暴力是最原始的,也是最野蛮的。 《七杀简史》讲述的就是那么一段原始野蛮的暴力。 虽然它自称讲述了七次杀戮,但其实死的人不计取...
评分1976年。雷鬼是世界范围内的新声音。鲍勃·马利成为世界巨星;滚石乐队待在牙买加,试图将 Cherry Oh Baby 的愉快旋律加入他们的新专辑《黑与蓝》(Black and Blue),但有一首与众不同的歌曲讲述了那个时代的故事。 明日之星朱尼尔·马文(Junior Murvin)将自己演唱的歌曲Pol...
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WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years.
Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 70s, to the crack wars in 80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 90s. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James’ place among the great literary talents of his generation.
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评分这本书刚开始读/听的时候很不适应,粗口,暴力,各式人物出场,一下子都不知道故事在哪里。后来越听反而越顺了。作者讲述故事的方式,以及涉及到的三教九流的各式人物。自觉不自觉的,就会有自己比较偏爱的角色。我最喜欢的是出场叫Nina,后来改名Kim, Dorcas的女生。觉得她很直接,并且还有一丝丝善良。有声书的几个朗读者把几个角色演绎得惟妙惟肖,加上非常有冲击力的语言,听这本书真是一个非常奇妙的体验。
评分这本书刚开始读/听的时候很不适应,粗口,暴力,各式人物出场,一下子都不知道故事在哪里。后来越听反而越顺了。作者讲述故事的方式,以及涉及到的三教九流的各式人物。自觉不自觉的,就会有自己比较偏爱的角色。我最喜欢的是出场叫Nina,后来改名Kim, Dorcas的女生。觉得她很直接,并且还有一丝丝善良。有声书的几个朗读者把几个角色演绎得惟妙惟肖,加上非常有冲击力的语言,听这本书真是一个非常奇妙的体验。
评分太他妈飞了,一不留神就糊你一脸。这两天我说话都开始I man/bredren/go so了。牙买加英语很有趣,脏得可爱,脏得有创意。
评分对于在语言上不知节制的都不想给高分。作者叙述水平很厉害,每个人物都有自己的叙述特点(这点大概写过小说的人都知道有多难实现),这点可以打四星。MJ的文笔很好,很庞大,但是就是这种庞大让我觉得这本书只值三星。什么难读的方言都不是扣分点,而这种自我沉醉式的庞大的构架以及大量戏剧化诗化的语言让我觉得难以读下去。
A Brief History of Seven Killings 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书