Marlon James

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ListMar 24, 2025

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@mbA Brief History of Seven Killings

ReviewFeb 9, 2025

Pomp and Circumcision

This novel turns many conventions on its head. The first and most obvious is the setting. Rather than the typical medieval setting of a fantasy novel, Marlon James aims to jettison this for a fictionalized, uncolonized sub-Saharan Africa. James sculpts his wo…

@pharmakosBlack Leopard, Red Wolf

ListJan 25, 2025

The Secondhand Book Shelf

I am a serial lurker of Western Australian Op Shops. Here are the fruits of my labours.

@vedleyA Brief History of Seven Killings

ReviewAug 17, 2024

If it go near so, it not go so

At its best, this novel is like Jamaican Irvine Welsh doing James Ellroy, a history of crime filtered through a collage of dialect-tinged perspectives. And as a history of crime, it's thrilling. The first two (of five) sections are tightly-written, unpredicta…

@tokyodrifterA Brief History of Seven Killings

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Backlisted.fm episode 21 books mentioned

Pomp and Circumcision

The Secondhand Book Shelf

If it go near so, it not go so

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Backlisted.fm episode 21 books mentioned

Pomp and Circumcision

The Secondhand Book Shelf

If it go near so, it not go so