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发表于2024-09-27
A Brief History of Seven Killings pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and his meticulous eye for detail to forge a novel of dazzling ambition and scope. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven unnamed gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but rumors abounded regarding the assassins’ fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is James’s fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica’s history and beyond. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, drug dealers, journalists, and even ghosts—James brings to life the people who walked the streets of 1970s Kingston, who dominated the crack houses of 1980s New York, and who reemerged into a radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Brilliantly inventive, A Brief History of Seven Killings is an “exhilarating” (The New York Times) epic that’s been called “a tour de force” (The Wall Street Journal).
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His most recent novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. James lives in Minneapolis.
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...
評分 評分1976年,微笑牙买加演唱会原定于两天后举办,以促成两个政党的团结。几名枪手闯入雷鬼巨星鲍勃·马利在金斯敦希望路56号的家中疯狂扫射,但这次暗杀行动以失败告终。在布克奖得主马龙·詹姆斯极具开拓性的小说《七杀简史》中,这次袭击成为对20世纪70年代牙买加社会尖锐评论的...
評分1976年,微笑牙买加演唱会原定于两天后举办,以促成两个政党的团结。几名枪手闯入雷鬼巨星鲍勃·马利在金斯敦希望路56号的家中疯狂扫射,但这次暗杀行动以失败告终。在布克奖得主马龙·詹姆斯极具开拓性的小说《七杀简史》中,这次袭击成为对20世纪70年代牙买加社会尖锐评论的...
評分从个人偏好来说,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...
A Brief History of Seven Killings pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024