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发表于2025-03-29
A Brief History of Seven Killings pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
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.
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.
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。
评分怎么可以不给五分呢?! 因为我家里装修事情断断续续用了四个月才终于这两天在过年假期里给看完了。 Marlon用英语的方式绝对太有冲击力了,极其有味道,除了后面doctor love 和Alex pierce有点用牙买加英语感到的稍有尴尬不适外,连把Kim Clarke描写的脑子里的事简直出神入化! 好了不多说了 这个真的是一个amazing trip看他的书还可以边去听里面提到的音乐,文章最后甚至还提到soca music可以学习到很多知识,超级推荐大家看
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。
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。
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评分布克奖评委会主席 迈克尔·伍德(Michael Wood): “这就是那本书。《七杀简史》是布克奖短名单上尤其令人兴奋的一本,非常暴力,粗话连篇,充满惊喜。 “我们在选这本书时没遇到什么困难,大家一致同意,不到两小时就决定了。 “书中有若干种声音,来自超过75 个角色,从牙买...
A Brief History of Seven Killings pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025