Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Name: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Author: Marlon James

by Marlon James

Darkly fantastical African epic follows a hunter and tracker through magical lands

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Marlon James

Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist who won the Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings. His Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the first volume of an epic dark fantasy trilogy drawing on African mythology and history. The novel has been praised for its imaginative scope and stylistic daring.

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