A Brief History of Seven Killings

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出版者:Riverhead Hardcover
作者:Marlon James
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页数:704
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出版时间:2014-10-2
价格:USD 28.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781594486005
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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.

作者简介

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.

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我看过很多版本的“世界历史”。 关于全古埃及人都是猫奴,巴比伦有高明的历法,斯巴达与雅典数十年的缠斗,我们可以连着聊一个小时;十字军打着上帝的名号东征,东罗马帝国的君士坦丁堡成为穆罕默德的伊斯坦布尔,马丁路德的宗教改革,我们也能理出个大概。 更别提文艺复兴,...  

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弗朗索瓦·萨冈写过一个爱上年长女人的法国男人,当然他的名字不叫马克龙而是西蒙,是25岁的见习律师。他对一个年长十多岁的女人一见钟情,神魂颠倒,满大街找她,隔着一条街道远远地看她,制造各种巧遇,可是真的站到她面前,他结结巴巴难以说出完整的句子。他写信给她,绞尽...  

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我看过很多版本的“世界历史”。 关于全古埃及人都是猫奴,巴比伦有高明的历法,斯巴达与雅典数十年的缠斗,我们可以连着聊一个小时;十字军打着上帝的名号东征,东罗马帝国的君士坦丁堡成为穆罕默德的伊斯坦布尔,马丁路德的宗教改革,我们也能理出个大概。 更别提文艺复兴,...  

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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。

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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。

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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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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

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。

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