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A Brief History of Seven Killings de Marlon James

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Autor Marlon James
en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2014 – vârsta de la 18 ani

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National Book Critics Circle Award (2014), Minnesota Book Award (2015), Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (2015)
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
A recipient of the 2015 American Book Award
One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book
Named a best book of the year by:
"The New York Times"
"Chicago Tribune"
"The Washington Post"
"The Boston Globe"
"Time"
"Newsweek"
"The Huffington Post"
"The Seattle Times"
"The Houston Chronicle"
"Publishers Weekly"
"Library Journal"
"Popsugar"
"BookPage"
"BuzzFeed Books"
"Salon"
"Kansas City Star"
"L Magazine"
From the acclaimed author of "The Book of Night Women" comes a musical, electric, fantastically profane ("The New York Times") epic that explores the tumultuous world of Jamaica over the past three decades.
In "A Brief History of Seven Killings," Marlon James combines brilliant storytelling with his unrivaled skills of characterization and meticulous eye for detail to forge an enthralling 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 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 much has been whispered, gossiped and sung about in the streets of West Kingston. Rumors abound regarding the assassins fates, and there are suspicions that the attack was politically motivated.
"A Brief History of Seven Killings" delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica s history and beyond. James deftly chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters gunmen, drug dealers, one-night stands, CIA agents, even ghosts over the course of thirty years as they roam the streets of 1970s Kingston, dominate the crack houses of 1980s New York, and ultimately reemerge into the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Along the way, they learn that evil does indeed cast long shadows, that justice and retribution are inextricably linked, and that no one can truly escape his fate.
Gripping and inventive, shocking and irresistible, "A Brief History of Seven Killings" is a mesmerizing modern classic of power, mystery, and insight."
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ISBN-13: 9781594486005
ISBN-10: 159448600X
Pagini: 688
Dimensiuni: 163 x 243 x 36 mm
Greutate: 1 kg
Editura: Riverhead Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Praise for "The Book of Night Women"

"James has conducted an experiment in how to write the unspeakable--even the unthinkable. And the results of that experiment are an undeniable success."
--"The New York Times Book Review"

"The narrative voice is so assured and the descriptions so detailed and believable that one can't help being engaged. This is a book to love . . . and it deserves to be read."
--"Chicago Tribune"

""The Book of Night Women" is not merely a historical novel. . . . It is a canticle of love and hate."
--"Los Angeles Times"

"A very nearly perfect work: an exquisite blend of form and content."
--"Toronto Globe and Mail"

""A Brief History of Seven Killings" is an amazing novel of power, corruption and lies. I can't think of a better one I've read this century."
- Irvine Welsh, author of "Trainspotting"
"There's a crowd of brilliant young Americo-Caribbean writers coming to the table these days, and Marlon James is not just among the best of them, he's among the best of all the young writers, period. He knows whereof he speaks, and he speaks with power and clarity. This novel cracks open a world that needs to be known. It has epic reach and achieves it. It's scary and lyrically beautiful - you'll want to read whole pages aloud to strangers."
--Russell Banks
""A Brief History of Seven Killings" is a masterpiece. Hinged around the 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley in Kingston, this massive poetic novel is a gripping, riveting read. Intuitively original, deeply erudite and intelligent, told from multiple points of view, it unravels the lethal world of mid-1970s Jamaican politics and its decades-long consequences in the deadly yardie world of crack-dealing. Magnificent."
--Chris Salewicz, author of "Bob Marley: The Untold Story"
"How to describe Marlon James's monumental new novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings"? It's like a Tarantino remake of "The Harder They Come" but with a soundtrack by Bob Marley and a script by Oliver Stone and William Faulkner, with maybe a little creative boost from some primo ganja. It's epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex. It's also raw, dense, violent, scalding, darkly comic, exhilarating and exhausting--a testament to Mr. James's vaulting ambition and prodigious talent." --"The New York Times"
"James' third novel sets up lines just so it can blur them: equal parts thriller, character study, cultural history."
--"Los Angeles Times "
"Upon finishing, the reader will have completed an indispensable and essential history of Jamaica's troubled years. This novel should be required reading."
--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
"Stunning... A brilliant novel, highly recommended; one of those big, rich, magisterial works that lets us into a world we really don't know."
--"Library Journal "(starred review)
"James is masterful at inhabiting a variety of voices and dialects, and he writes unflinchingly about the violence, drug-fueled and coldblooded, that runs through [Jamaica's] ghettos...James' fiction thus far is forming a remarkable portrait of Jamaica in the 19th and 20th centuries."
--"Kirkus Reviews "
Praise for "The Book of Night Women"
"James has conducted an experiment in how to write the unspeakable--even the unthinkable. And the results of that experiment are an undeniable success."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"The narrative voice is so assured and the descriptions so detailed and believable that one can't help being engaged. This is a book to love . . . and it deserves to be read."
--"Chicago Tribune"
""The Book of Night Women" is not merely a historical novel. . . . It is a canticle of love and hate."
--"Los Angeles Times"
"A very nearly perfect work: an exquisite blend of form and content."
--"The Globe and Mail"

"How to describe Marlon James's monumental new novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings"? It's like a Tarantino remake of "The Harder They Come" but with a soundtrack by Bob Marley and a script by Oliver Stone and William Faulkner, with maybe a little creative boost from some primo ganja. It's epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex. It's also raw, dense, violent, scalding, darkly comic, exhilarating and exhausting--a testament to Mr. James's vaulting ambition and prodigious talent." --"The New York Times"
"[A] tour de force... [an] audacious, demanding, inventive literary work."
--"Wall Street Journal"
"Thrilling, ambitious...Both intense and epic."
--"Los Angeles Times"
"Nothing short of awe-inspiring."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"A prismatic story of gang violence and Cold War politics in a turbulent post-independence Jamaica."
--"The New Yorker"
"Exploding with violence and seething with arousal, the third novel by Marlon James cuts a swath across recent Jamaican history...This compelling, not-so-brief history brings off a social portrait worthy of Diego Rivera, antic and engage, a fascinating tangle of the naked and the dead."
--"The Washington Post "
"[Marlon James] is a virtuoso ...[the novel is] an epic of postcolonial fallout, in Jamaica and elsewhere, and America's participation in that history. ...the book is not only persuasive but tragic, though in its polyphony and scope it's more than that....It makes its own kind of music, not like Marley's, but like the tumult he couldn't stop."
--"New York Times Book Review"
"Brilliantly executed... The novel makes no compromises, but is cruelly and consummately a work of art."
--"The""Minneapolis Star Tribune "
"An excellent new work of historical fiction ... part crime thriller, part oral history, part stream-of-consciousness monologue."
--"Rolling Stone "
"An impressive feat of storytelling: raw, uncompromising, panoramic yet meticulously detailed. The Jamaica portrayed here is one many people have heard songs about but have never seen rendered in such arresting specificity--and if they have, only briefly."
--"Chicago Tribune"
"""James has written a dangerous book, one full of lore and whispers and history... [a] great book... James nibbles at theories of who did what and why, and scripts Marley's quest for revenge with the pace of a thriller. His achievement, however, goes far beyond opening up this terrible moment in the life of a great musician. He gives us the streets, the people, especially the desperate, the Jamaicans whom Marley exhorted to: 'Open your eyes and look within: / Are you satisfied with the life your living?'"
--"The Boston Globe "
"I highly recommend you pick ["A Brief History of Seven Killings"] up. As a book of many narrators, this novel reminds me of Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives.""
--NPR, "All Things Considered "
"A strange and wonderful novel...Mr. James's chronicle of late 20th-century Jamaican politics and gang wars manages consistently to shock and mesmerise at the same time."
--"The Economist"
"The way James uses language is amazing....Vigorous, intricate and captivating, "A Brief History of Seven Killings" is hard to put down."
--"Ebony "
"James's masterful novel radiates; [it's] a character-driven tale that takes place in a maelstrom of guns, drugs and politics."
--"Playboy"
"Technically astounding... a wildly ambitious and brilliant book...this stunning counterfactual fiction evokes both the pungency of Faulkner's Southern gothic Yoknapatawpha novels and the wild tabloid noir of James Ellroy's 'White Jazz'...[Marlon] James raises fiction's ante throughout this bravura novel."
--"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
"A gripping tale in which music, drugs, sex, and violence collide with explosive results."
--"Bustle "
"An exuberant, Balzacian novel by self-described 'post-post colonialist' writer who is at ease with several canons, traditions, and dialects. You'll also find a political novel on the level of Don DeLillo. It's the rare 'revelation' that will easily outlive its hype-cycle."
"-- Flavorwire"
"A dazzling fictional representation of Jamaica."
--"GQ "(UK)
""A Brief History of Seven Killings" is an amazing novel of power, corruption and lies. I can't think of a better one I've read this century."
- Irvine Welsh, author of "Trainspotting"
"There's a crowd of brilliant young Americo-Caribbean writers coming to the table these days, and Marlon James is not just among the best of them, he's among the best of all the young writers, period. He knows whereof he speaks, and he speaks with power and clarity. This novel cracks open a world that needs to be known. It has epic reach and achieves it. It's scary and lyrically beautiful - you'll want to read whole pages aloud to strangers."
--Russell Banks
""A Brief History of Seven Killings" is a masterpiece. Hinged around the 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley in Kingston, this massive poetic novel is a gripping, riveting read. Intuitively original, deeply erudite and intelligent, told from multiple points of view, it unravels the lethal world of mid-1970s Jamaican politics and its decades-long consequences in the deadly yardie world of crack-dealing. Magnificent."
--Chris Salewicz, author of "Bob Marley: The Untold Story"
"Upon finishing, the reader will have completed an indispensable and essential history of Jamaica's troubled years. This novel should be required reading."
--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
"Stunning... A brilliant novel, highly recommended; one of those big, rich, magisterial works that lets us into a world we really don't know."
--"Library Journal "(starred review)
"James is masterful at inhabiting a variety of voices and dialects, and he writes unflinchingly about the violence, drug-fueled and coldblooded, that runs through [Jamaica's] ghettos...James' fiction thus far is forming a remarkable portrait of Jamaica in the 19th and 20th centuries."
--"Kirkus Reviews "

Notă biografică

Marlon James was born in Jamaica, in 1970. He is the author of "The Book of Night Women," which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award 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.

Descriere

"Epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex. It's also raw, dense, violent, scalding, darkly comic, exhilarating and exhausting -- a testament to Mr. James's vaulting ambition and prodigious talent."--"The New York Times"
From the acclaimed author of "The Book of Night Women" comes one of the year's most anticipated novels, a lyrical, masterfully written epic 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.

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