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.
拉斯塔法里Rastafari 1930年代起自牙买加兴起的黑人基督教宗教运动。该运动信徒相信埃塞俄比亚皇帝海尔·塞拉西一世是上帝在现代的转世,是圣经中预言的弥赛亚重临人间,而非洲(尤其是埃塞俄比亚)是地上的天堂。 拉斯塔法里教徒有几个标志性喜好: 雷鬼音乐,脏辫(dreadlock...
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評分读《七杀简史》的过程,是一种感觉随时可能“失控”的过程,是的,你随时感觉快要跟不上故事的节奏和线索了,读这本小说,你要么不读,要读就不能间断太多,得快些读完,否则就会再捧起读了一半的书时,有种千头万绪不知从何处开始的感觉。同时,这也是一本品味上独特的小说,...
評分拉斯塔法里Rastafari 1930年代起自牙买加兴起的黑人基督教宗教运动。该运动信徒相信埃塞俄比亚皇帝海尔·塞拉西一世是上帝在现代的转世,是圣经中预言的弥赛亚重临人间,而非洲(尤其是埃塞俄比亚)是地上的天堂。 拉斯塔法里教徒有几个标志性喜好: 雷鬼音乐,脏辫(dreadlock...
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评分多重人物敘述 似乎過於龐雜。
评分多重人物敘述 似乎過於龐雜。
评分長,太長瞭,舉起來又放下去二十多次的小說。很精彩很凶狠。讀進去的是最後幾章,前麵有些我讀的真是雲裏霧裏的,太跳脫瞭啊喂。隻在想作者分裂齣瞭多少人格。這個牙買加英語真的迷幻凶。BTW感謝《毒梟》為我提供背景知識瞭。
评分太他媽飛瞭,一不留神就糊你一臉。這兩天我說話都開始I man/bredren/go so瞭。牙買加英語很有趣,髒得可愛,髒得有創意。
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