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A review by emilybryk
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
5.0
By-God excellent. Difficult and complex and dense, but triumphantly successful at having a massive number of narrators each of whom have distinctive voices. The real key piece here was Nina, whose voice was so clear that . This kind of thing has been a big issue for me a lot lately -- if you're going to go for multiple narrators, you've got to be able to really back it up. And oh. This does.
Seriously, this was positively show-offish. Mr. James is the Real Thing, even when things get so pornographically violent (I'm looking at basically the last third of the book, especially) that I could hardly continue. I'll admit that I don't know a ton about Jamaica in the 70s, and I hadn't known anything at all about the Cokes/the Shower Posse (whose rise Josey Wales follows pretty closely). But man. Man.
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you pick her out even when she shows up under another of her assumed namesSeriously, this was positively show-offish. Mr. James is the Real Thing, even when things get so pornographically violent (I'm looking at basically the last third of the book, especially) that I could hardly continue. I'll admit that I don't know a ton about Jamaica in the 70s, and I hadn't known anything at all about the Cokes/the Shower Posse (whose rise Josey Wales follows pretty closely). But man. Man.