Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Författare till Friday Black
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 20th century
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Utbildning
- SUNY Albany
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (MFA) - Relationer
- Saunders, George (professor)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Winner of Second Annual Breakwater Fiction Contest
National Book Foundation, 5 Under 35 Honoree (2018) - Agent
- Simonoff, Meredith Kaffel (DeFiore & Company)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 5
- Även av
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 1,479
- Popularitet
- #17,374
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 76
- ISBN
- 35
- Språk
- 6
This might be one of those that stays with me. At the moment I'm digesting the ending (or a new beginning?). I'm not even completely sure what happened there. Did Staxxx cheated LT? There were many ways to end it - was this the best, smartest, most unexpected, realistic one?
I haven't read much books like this - I haven't even read the Hunger Games. But it felt really original to me. Yes, some might hate the footnotes, but I actually liked that stylish element. There were mainly two types of them - some glimpses from the background of lesser characters or some factual information about the carceral system.
The writing was very good. I think I give more and more points to a book if I find the writing beautiful. I loved the short chapters and how all these different short stories of various actors were interwoven forming a complex pattern. Despite, the difficult topic and the clear abolitionist message, the narrative was not preachy, the criminals were not cleaned of their guilt, they were complex, haunted human beings formed by their environment, failed by the system. There was only one Link who was innocent and who first killed on the BattleGround.
And yes, the Games. Wow! I just loved the imagination and the realness of the games. They reminded me of a high-resolution computer game and I think I often resorted to that idea to cope with imagining real people killing real people and all the country and the world watching them. Could it really happen? It is really scary to think about it. The story line of the spectators - Emily and Wil - was the most disturbing one of all. I loved all the slang of the games, all the technology in the book, which we're not really far from. However, I really hope we are far from Chain-Gang All-Stars.… (mer)