I just finished Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings,

This sounds neat, OP. I'll try and keep it in mind.

I'm waiting for his Black Leopard, Red Wolf

>>8864210
It's a good read. A little slow at first and later on the narrative gets confusing - way more confusing than Faulkner, for me at least - but some of the Jamaican-patois prose is absolutely beautiful, and for a guy who would be championed by idpol types James knows how to write anyone from black to gay to white.

>>8864217
I'm very intrigued.

>>8864208
Too long! Drawn out enough that it suffers from not having a plot, and that's not normally something I complain about. Didn't learn anything but it had a few memorable passages. Patois was the highlight -- not a gimmick, but its main claim to being "literary".

>>8864208
Wardine be cry, mon. Rasscloth battyhole.

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>>8864208

>I'm no liberal-left type or anything, but

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>>8864281
That's a fair opinion. It took me me longer than it should've to finish. The third section especially, before it goes all Scarface, is kind of a slog. I stuck around for Josey Wales myself.

>>8864208
I finished rereading it a week ago. It ages like fine wine, which is surprising considering how equally schizophrenic it can be in tone. It has crime, politics, feminism, race, and domestic discontent, all rolled up into one comprehensive case study on a tumultuous era in modern history. Plus, the guy writes inner monologue better than any modern writer that I've come across. Each character, apart from Demus, who felt a little archetypal, has a distinct vernacular and attitude.

I truly hope it stands the test of time and becomes hailed as one of the great 21st century novels

>>8865079
And speaking of feminism, it treats the subject matter with just the right amount of tact. The best part about Nina is that she is portrayed as both a victim and occasional aggressor, and not like some paragon of human morality which seems to be the trend nowadays

>>8864208
Read Night Women, its even better.

Seven Killings was my favorite book of last year, and if they make an HBO series out of it with Idris Elba as Jose Wales they are gonna make bank.

>>8865087
Well to be fair, the situation of poor women in Jamaica as depicted in that book is rather unhappy to say the least.

>>8865097
Yeah, what I meant is that it would have been easy to portray Nina as an innocent woman who can do no wrong, but she has a couple of moments in which she reveals a more instinctual side

>>8864208
/lit/ had a ABHo7K phase not too long ago, before he Stoner phase I think. No one had anything bad to say about it, many thought it was great. I went to go buy it without realizing that it was a doorstopper and bitched out. I'll definitely read it sometime

>brief history
>it's not brief

how does he get away with it

is bho7k the city of god of literature?

is marlon james the black david foster wallace?

>>8864208
Really enjoyed it. Used to work with someone straight outta Kingston, so the patois wasn't lost on me.

I'm a bit worried about what he's working on now, apparently its a cross of Game of Thrones and African royalty
in b4 WE WUZ

>>8864208
$0.02 has been deposited in your Soros Poverty Law Center account

>>8865340
>is marlon james the black david foster wallace?
p sure that's Coulson Whitehead. He even looks like a black DFW

>>8865350
why would you be worried?

>“African folklore is just as rich, and just as perverse as that shit,” he told the magazine. “We have witches, we have demons, we have goblins, and mad kings. We have stories of royal succession that would put Wolf Hall to shame.”

Sounds good actually.

I hope it has zombies, zombies were "an african thing".

>>8865382
I think I'm worried people may hype it up and if it doesn't "match" GoT a lot of people will turn their backs on it. I don't know maybe I'm overthinking.


I hope it turns out alright

>>8865382
fanta-see ain't welcome 'round these parts, boy. best be movin' on.
GOWAN, GIT

>>8865398
But i want to read some kink voodoo witchcraft..

>>8865278
>before he Stoner phase
Stoner phase was like 2012, followed swiftly by this kind of thing:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/56913-stoner-finds-overseas-success.html

>>8865340
No, he is an awful SJW, hits every stereotypes. How that doesnt bleed into his books I have no idea.

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>>8865394
I too am looking forward to this work.

>>8864208
I read the book over the summer. I found it to be good overall but the final part was an unbelievable slog at first. The chapter in which Nina (going under a different name) is just really fucking stressed out because she fucked some dude for a green card but also has an American husband or boyfriend, that part was far too long and was pretty fucking boring.

The prose was fucking great though. The patois was very well done and the characters were all interesting. I'd give it a 7/10 just because it was way too long. There was no reason to go to America, I don't think. It seemed like another book.