A Brief History of Seven Killings -

[Jan Devenish]

i'd recommend the meursault investigation by kamel daoud

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/24/meursault-investigation-kamel-daoud-review-instant-classic

On 30 December 2015 at 08:30, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brief History had a powerful, original style in the beginning section I
> read and I am sure you are right. It was a busy time for me, I had it from
> a library and could not continue but will.
>
> I will add Submission, a book that satirizes as slyly as examples fail me.
> I will give one sorta thematic spoiler related to early TRP. The narrator
> goes to a monastery dedicated to the Virgin, in a town which still might be
> seen to nostalgically embody the ethos of medieval Christianity, which is
> presented as essentially Maryology. One might think of Adams' Mont-Saint
> Michel and Chartres and, of course, the Virgin and the Dynamo.
>
> that value is dead, as Pynchon seemed to imply at the end of V.
>
>  And, a more particular SPOILER ( if you want to read it) is brilliant in
> my opinion. In his monkish room, there is a sensitive smoke detector, so he
> cannot. ( We have hardly learned he smokes, earlier in a book devoted to
> presenting sensual pleasures and habits, but now, of course it is
> Almost all he can think of). that smoke detector as a metaphor for how the
> surveillance society detects even in a monk's cell in an old-fashioned
> French town struck me)
>
> As much else did. Only read one other by him but he's the real deal, it
> seems to me. ( easy to say after two Goncourts and such intelligent praise
> as well as division)
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Dec 29, 2015, at 9:40 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
> >
> > Imo,  the one book p-listers might enjoy most from this year’s offerings
> is A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James.  It’s quite violent
> but the structure and language are brilliant.  A fictional retelling of the
> attempted assassination of Bob Marley but a lot of the story is what
> transpired later and how it related to what went before.
> >
> > Also excellent:
> > City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg / New York City circa 1977
> > Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith / crime - Blue Oyster Cult
> > The Cartel by Don Winslow / crime -  drug lords in Mexico
> > Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates  /  nonfiction - race
> relations
> >
> > Bek -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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