A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James, Ryan Anderson, Dwight Bacquie, Cherise Boothe, Robertson Dean, Johnathan McClain, Robert Younis, Various Narrators · first published 2014
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"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
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- Underworld, Don Delilo - A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James - NW, Zadie Smith - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen Multiple narrators, sweeping plot, not always easy to follow, not too postmodern.
on “Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?” ↗I also gave up on Pynchon. You should check out A Brief History of Seven Killings, postmodern done right if you ask me.
on “The cultural decline of literary fiction” ↗…9. 'The Bone Clocks' by David Mitchell 10. 'The Book Of Strange New Things' by Michel Faber 11. 'The Book Of Unknown Americans' by Cristina Henríquez 12. 'Boy, Snow, Bird' by Helen Oyeyemi 13. 'A Brief History Of Seven Killings' by Marlon James 14. 'Can’t And Won’t' by Lydia Davis 15. 'The Cold Song' by Linn Ullmann. Translated by Barbara J. Haveland 16. 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage' by Haruki Murakami.…
on “Notable Books of 2014” ↗Somewhat orthogonal, I've never been so disappointed by a follow up work than I have with Marlon James; from Brief History of Seven Killings to Black Leopard Red Wolf (the most abandoned book on the "to" list). Seems I'm not alone in this feeling!
on “The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019)” ↗