| Author | Marlon James |
|---|---|
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
| Publication date | February 5, 2019 |
| Pages | 620 |
| ISBN | 9780735220171 |
| OCLC | 1047524543 |
| Rating | Click to rate this post! [Total: 1 Average: 5] |
Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a 2019 fantasy novel by Marlon James. It is the first book of a planned trilogy. The novel is based on African history and mythology, mixed with the landscape of the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom, the political tensions between these two war states, and several city-states and tribes in the surrounding landscape. Michael B. Jordan acquired the rights to produce a film adaptation in February 2019 before the book was released.
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Summary
In the first novel of the Marlon James Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
The tracker is known for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose,” people say. Committed to tracking a mysterious child who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that joins to search for the child. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with their own secrets, including an animal-man who changes in a way known as Leopard.
Based on African history and mythology and his rich imagination, Marlon James has written an adventure that is also an ambitious and engaging reading. Challenging categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf explores the foundations of truths, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.
Review
Marlon James is one of those novelists who are not afraid to give a performance, change the language states from viscous to effusive to great, to penetrate the people he has created … [Black leopard, red wolf] looks like another great, great story of death, murder, and mystery, but more fantastically mystical … This book not only comes with a large cast of characters (like Seven Killings), there are also shapeshifters, fairies, trolls and, apparently, a map. The map can be useful. But it could be the opposite of why you come to James, to lose yourself in him.
About the Author
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of the best-selling Black Leopard, Red Wolf, of the New York Times, who was a finalist for the National Fiction Book Award in 2019. His novel A Brief History of seven murders won the Man Award Booker 2015. He was also a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize for Fiction, and the Minnesota Book Prize. It was also a remarkable New York Times book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Award and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Award and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.
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