![]() ![]() In 2015, he won the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” which was hailed by critics as destined “to be seen as a classic of our times.” He is wry, clever and never afraid to poke fun at the literary establishment. It’s a story with nearly hallucinatory qualities, told as if around a campfire in a dense, dark forest - or perhaps, more accurately, traversed in one long fever dream.īut “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” is set apart by more than its characteristically Jamesian (Marlon, not Henry) dark, noir aesthetic and four-page-long character list.įor readers unfamiliar with Marlon James, his 2019 PEN Out Loud conversation with Salman Rushdie is a great introduction. ![]() ![]() Even in the fantasy genre, where anything can happen, Marlon James has taken things even further. “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” is a book that breaks the rules. ![]()
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