Marlon James
Autor de A Brief History of Seven Killings
Sobre El Autor
Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1970. He studied literature at the University of the West Indies. He worked in advertising for more than a decade, as a copywriter, art director and graphic designer. He took a writing workshop in Kingston, Jamaica, and later enrolled in a writing mostrar más program at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. His first novel, John Crow's Devil, was published in 2005. His other novels include The Book of Night Women and A Brief History of Seven Killings, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015. He teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Marlon James
The Boy and the Dark Star 18 copias
Yedi Cinayetin Kısa Tarihçesi 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Marlon, James
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1970-11-24
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Jamaica (birth)
USA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Lugares de residencia
- Kingston, Jamaica
USA
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Educación
- University of the West Indies
Wilkes University - Ocupaciones
- novelist
- Organizaciones
- Macalester College
- Premios y honores
- 2015 Man Booker
- Biografía breve
- Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. He is the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction as well as an NAACP Image Award. His first novel John Crow's Devil was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editor's Choice. In his third novel, A Brief History Of Seven Killings, James is exploring multiple genres: the political thriller, the oral biography, and the classic whodunit to confront the untold history of Jamaica in the late 1970's; of the assassination attempt on Bob Marley, and the country's own clandestine battles of the cold war.
James graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1991 with a degree in Language And Literature, and from Wilkes University in 2006 with a Masters in creative writing. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared widely including in Esquire, Granta, and The Caribbean Review of Books.
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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize… por Marlon James
"The Wire" set in Jamaica....whats not to like?
I really loved [b:Black Leopard, Red Wolf|50608676|Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579618622l/50608676._SX50_.jpg|48215793] and was expecting to enjoy [b:Moon Witch, Spider King|33832433|Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630425388l/33832433._SY75_.jpg|54760560] just as much. While I liked it, it wasn’t as propulsive and compelling a reading experience as the prequel. Sogolon has a strong narrative voice and the world-building is as rich and fascinating as before. However, the pace and plotting don’t have the same edge. The story is essentially of Sogolon’s lengthy life, which has a more episodic quality than Tracker recounting his hunt for the boy like a noir mystery. It’s easy to see why Sogolon and Tracker don’t get on well: both are argumentative, angry, violent, and traumatised in similar ways. Their stories intersect in the final hundred pages of [b:Moon Witch, Spider King|33832433|Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630425388l/33832433._SY75_.jpg|54760560].
Learning additional context for the events of [b:Black Leopard, Red Wolf|50608676|Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579618622l/50608676._SX50_.jpg|48215793] definitely appealed. I reread its ending after finishing [b:Moon Witch, Spider King|33832433|Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630425388l/33832433._SY75_.jpg|54760560]; doing so makes it clear that neither Sogolon nor Tracker is a particularly reliable narrator. Apart from anything else, Tracker is inclined to provide a lot of dialogue, while Sogolon conveys events in a more laconic manner. There were sequences in her story that I really liked, but I found the unrelenting chaos of Tracker’s narrative more intensely involving. My favourite elements of [b:Moon Witch, Spider King|33832433|Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630425388l/33832433._SY75_.jpg|54760560] were spooky magic stuff, notably memory erasure, and Sogolon’s time as a vigilante assassin.
I can’t help wondering how different my relative impressions of the two novels would be had I read [b:Moon Witch, Spider King|33832433|Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630425388l/33832433._SY75_.jpg|54760560] first. There is no reason why the two couldn’t be read in either order. In publication order, Tracker gains the upper hand for getting to recount his side of things first. The two novels aren’t sufficiently different in setting, style, and plot to compliment each other rather than jostling and overlapping, I think. I’m still eager to see where the third book in the trilogy goes, though.… (más)
Learning additional context for the events of [b:Black Leopard, Red Wolf|50608676|Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579618622l/50608676._SX50_.jpg|48215793] definitely appealed. I reread its ending after finishing [b:Moon Witch, Spider King|33832433|Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630425388l/33832433._SY75_.jpg|54760560]; doing so makes it clear that neither Sogolon nor Tracker is a particularly reliable narrator. Apart from anything else, Tracker is inclined to provide a lot of dialogue, while Sogolon conveys events in a more laconic manner. There were sequences in her story that I really liked, but I found the unrelenting chaos of Tracker’s narrative more intensely involving. My favourite elements of [b:Moon Witch, Spider King|33832433|Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630425388l/33832433._SY75_.jpg|54760560] were spooky magic stuff, notably memory erasure, and Sogolon’s time as a vigilante assassin.
I can’t help wondering how different my relative impressions of the two novels would be had I read [b:Moon Witch, Spider King|33832433|Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630425388l/33832433._SY75_.jpg|54760560] first. There is no reason why the two couldn’t be read in either order. In publication order, Tracker gains the upper hand for getting to recount his side of things first. The two novels aren’t sufficiently different in setting, style, and plot to compliment each other rather than jostling and overlapping, I think. I’m still eager to see where the third book in the trilogy goes, though.… (más)
What a febrile, intense novel! [b:Black Leopard, Red Wolf|50608676|Black Leopard, Red Wolf|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579618622l/50608676._SX50_.jpg|48215793] grabs you by the neck and doesn't let go for six hundred pages. The narrator, Tracker, tells his life story in an unreliable, disjointed style. He is not being intentionally autobiographical; he is mostly trying to recount how he and others searched for a lost boy. Thus, once I'd become accustomed to the setting, I realised I was reading a spectacularly entertaining noir mystery. Tracker is essentially a hard-boiled PI in fantasy pre-colonial Africa, combing the seedy underbelly of various strange cities in search of his quarry. Around him circle an extensive cast of enemies, friends, frenemies, lovers, witches, monsters, royalty, slaves, children, ghosts, and wild creatures. Tracker's unapologetic queerness is excellent. The slow build of his relationship with Mossi is surprisingly adorable, given the horrific situations the two constantly find themselves in. They bicker very amusingly. His complicated dynamic with the Leopard is a highlight of the book.
The pace of events never slows, as situations are continually exploding into argument or violence. James writes brilliant arguments, a rare skill, and the dialogue is consistently witty. The action scenes are vivid, brutal, and scattered with distinctive magical details. There are some horrific moments of torture and killing; the world depicted can be cruel and arbitrary. Tracker is angry, traumatised, and often uncertain of why he continues searching for the boy as the reasons for doing so are thrown into doubt. Yet he remains continually in motion and so I was pulled along breathlessly by his narrative, fascinated by the settings, people, and events. Even a scene in which Tracker dug through tax records was tense and thrilling. [b:Black Leopard, Red Wolf|50608676|Black Leopard, Red Wolf|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579618622l/50608676._SX50_.jpg|48215793] is an outstandingly involving fantasy novel that evokes a marvellous world and fills it with memorably weird and original characters and happenings. It is a joy to read; I haven't anything so propulsive for a long time and very much look forward to the next book in the trilogy.… (más)
The pace of events never slows, as situations are continually exploding into argument or violence. James writes brilliant arguments, a rare skill, and the dialogue is consistently witty. The action scenes are vivid, brutal, and scattered with distinctive magical details. There are some horrific moments of torture and killing; the world depicted can be cruel and arbitrary. Tracker is angry, traumatised, and often uncertain of why he continues searching for the boy as the reasons for doing so are thrown into doubt. Yet he remains continually in motion and so I was pulled along breathlessly by his narrative, fascinated by the settings, people, and events. Even a scene in which Tracker dug through tax records was tense and thrilling. [b:Black Leopard, Red Wolf|50608676|Black Leopard, Red Wolf|Marlon James|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579618622l/50608676._SX50_.jpg|48215793] is an outstandingly involving fantasy novel that evokes a marvellous world and fills it with memorably weird and original characters and happenings. It is a joy to read; I haven't anything so propulsive for a long time and very much look forward to the next book in the trilogy.… (más)
I tried really hard to finish this book. I felt guilty for receiving an early copy of this through a giveaway and not finishing it. I only made it about 1/3 of the way in. But it's so hard to follow and I'm just not enjoying it. Maybe I'll come back to it later ...
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