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Product details
Paperback: 704 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Books; Reprint edition (September 8, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594633940
ISBN-13: 978-1594633942
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 1.4 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.7 out of 5 stars
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A truly awesome novel, notable by just how bizarre and hard to qualify it is. Had it not been for the hype I don't think I would have been interested in a War and Peace-length crime/espionage/social history/music doc/reggae-inspired novel told entirely in the first person from characters speaking and thinking in Jamaican slang. Turns out, it was exactly that kind of challenging exterior that got me hooked after the first few chapters. The Jamaican slang is nothing if not entertaining to read, but chapters spoken in heavy dialect are usually followed up by chapters from the perspective of a character that speaks much tamer English - usually American or high-class Jamaican characters.I don't think it's a spoiler to mention in the review that the novel revolves around the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 70s (referred to in the book as "the Singer" but you know who they mean. Only on one occasion does someone call him Bob). This is a really cool premise because it gives us insight into the almost god-like status that Marley had in Jamaica at the time, but also into the criminal and political implications of that kind of power (local parties tried to curry favor with the Singer), and it all serves as a natural set-up for deliciously pulpy action and violence. A major achievement of this book is how it manages to balance fun of high pulp with the sobering reality of the horrific violence that pulp entails. It never feels cheap or exploitative, and I think that it all hinges on how well each character's inner life is drawn out. We see everything that happens from someone's first person perspective, so their reaction to the goings-on (and any moral judgements, personal reckonings, etc) are entirely informed by what they bring to the table. Really well done!If I have one criticism, it's that it really feels like two books. The first half - everything leading up to the attempted murder of Bob Marley and the immediate aftermath - takes place over just a few days and moves like a hallucination through the slums of Kingston, twisting into the upper echelons of power, into the hands of shady CIA wheelers and dealers and back down again. The second half - spanning about 20 years after the fact - moves at a very different pace, incorporates a host of new characters and settings (the story expands to elsewhere in Jamaica, plus Miami and New York, with hints of Medellin) and is overall less focused than the first. It's still really interesting, but the difference is jarring. Chapters in the first half move at a lightning pace; in the second half, they could span 100 pages each (this is a very long book!).I'd say this is a must-read, though I fully acknowledge that it will be hard for a lot of people to get into it based on the huge pagecount and Jamaican prose.
This was probably the most challenging novel I've read in several years. Who am I kidding? There's no probably about it. Marlon James has constructed an incredibly complex story, and it took every bit of memory available to me to keep up. He was kind enough to include a cast of characters, but I made it a point to refer to it as little as possible, opting instead to try and follow the story under my own power.Add to the story's complexity the fact that most of the characters are from the ghettos of Kingston, and speak in a patois that takes some serious acclimation initially, and will slow your reading speed to a crawl at times. Amazingly though, after spending nearly a week with these characters, I felt like I had picked up the meanings quite well and could read those sections much quicker. Strangely, for me, this adaptation was the most rewarding aspect of this particular reading experience. In fact, as much respect as I now have for Marlon James' talent, I have to admit that I did not actually enjoy this novel, and found it made for an almost constantly uncomfortable reading experience.The last time I felt the inability to enjoy such a well written book, I was reading In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, a Pulitzer finalist. Both books require the reader to spend most of their time in very difficult places. By difficult I mean places where innocents suffer a great deal of agony and injustice, and both books left me feeling a certain hopelessness from which I felt the reader was never released. That may well be James' intention, and the fact that he could take me to such places and make them feel so real as to make me uncomfortable is a testament to his talents.This novel contains a great deal of incredibly graphic violence (including rape), and in fact I cannot name a more graphically violent novel that I've read in the past few years. Perhaps Philip Meyers' "The Son" comes close? There is also a lot of quite graphic sex, and since the majority of the novel's many characters are hardcore criminals, the language is very often coarse throughout the story. The number of such moments are what makes it difficult for me to recommend the book to anyone whose taste and tolerance for such things I do not know well. But the novel seems to me to have been an honest one, and as you wallow in the depths and the dregs with these gangsters, you sense the suffering from which they were born, and and begin to understand their Machiavellian existence. Again, James was able to take me to some places I've certainly never been, but I can't necessarily say I'm glad I went there.Overall, this is a brilliantly executed novel by a man who possesses a great deal of talent, and yet it is a book that is likely to prove a challenging read to most, for the reasons I've listed and more. I can't say that I'm happy to have read it, but I can certainly appreciate the art that James has created, and I do take some personal satisfaction in having followed such an intricate story to its end. Reading difficult fiction isn't always enjoyable, but it is usually beneficial, and for that I can say I'm grateful to have read A Brief History of Seven Killings.
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