by Marlon James · Riverhead Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780525542773
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«Black Leopard, Red Wolf» is Marlon James's epic fantasy novel, published by Riverhead Books in paperback (640 pages, in English).
Tracker, a hunter famous for his nose, searches for a missing child with a motley group, including Leopard, a shape-shifting animal man. The search crosses ancient cities, forests and rivers; hostile creatures attack, and Tracker begins to doubt who is telling the truth. Marlon James blends African history and mythology in a fantasy about power and ambition.
First instalment of the Dark Star trilogy. It won the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award.
For readers of epic fantasy seeking a work rooted in African mythology with a literary fiction tone.
Marlon James is a Jamaican writer. He is the author of five novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009), A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), which won him the 2015 Man Booker Prize, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019), and Moon Witch, Spider King (2022). He wrote the limited series Get Millie Black.
