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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每一部文学作品都是作者和读者之间的隔空斗智,作者开出题目,由读者进行解答。如果作者的谜题很容易被猜中,那么他会遭到读者的耻笑。相反,如果作者的题目构思巧妙,令人拍案叫绝,那么读者也会给予作者以极高的评价。这本《七杀简史》显然属于后一种情况。 打开这本厚如词典...  

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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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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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从个人偏好来说,在不同的文学类型中,我喜欢幻想类多过纪实类,浪漫主义多过现实主义,宏大叙事多过细节描述,抽象派多过具象派。所以很容易想象会被吸引的作家类型,比如博尔赫斯、比如黑塞,比如科幻中的克拉克。这本七杀简史偏现实主义、具象、取材于真实历史,几乎踩中了...  

用户评价

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难怪的了布克奖,写得好到飞起!

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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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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。

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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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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。

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