A Brief History of Seven Killings

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.

出版者:Riverhead Hardcover

作者:Marlon James

页数:704

出版时间:2014-10-2

价格:USD 28.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781594486005

图书标签:牙买加布克奖小说英文英文原版英语闲书詹姆斯

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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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用户评价

难怪的了布克奖，写得好到飞起！

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。

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。

长，太长了，举起来又放下去二十多次的小说。很精彩很凶狠。读进去的是最后几章，前面有些我读的真是云里雾里的，太跳脱了啊喂。只在想作者分裂出了多少人格。这个牙买加英语真的迷幻凶。BTW感谢《毒枭》为我提供背景知识了。

多重人物叙述 似乎过于庞杂。