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2024-04-20
A Brief History of Seven Killings 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
说实话,这本书并不是那么好读。 一切都很陌生,陌生的国度、陌生的历史背景、陌生的语言环境,完全没有代入感,甚至很多词都闻所未闻,不得不边读边百度,补足背景知识的缺失。 当初想读这本书是因为这是2015年布克奖的获奖作品,在我印象中,入选布克奖就意味着这本书有很强...
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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.
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。
评分别被书名骗了,一点都不Brief好吗!地道的牙买加式的英语表达,时刻考验英语语法和单词,也蛮佩服自己把它啃完了,还不是因为故事的背景是雷鬼歌神Bob Marley曾经被刺杀为主要线索。种族的斗争,意识流的争斗,过二十年看,是多么可笑。只不过人类一代代反复着这种可笑的进程,无限循环。
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评分别被书名骗了,一点都不Brief好吗!地道的牙买加式的英语表达,时刻考验英语语法和单词,也蛮佩服自己把它啃完了,还不是因为故事的背景是雷鬼歌神Bob Marley曾经被刺杀为主要线索。种族的斗争,意识流的争斗,过二十年看,是多么可笑。只不过人类一代代反复着这种可笑的进程,无限循环。
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