“ Black Leopard, Red Wolf is an amazing epic that launches from a familiar framework of the fantasy genre. Caleb Masters, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, NC Summer 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List This is literary fantasy as you’ve never encountered it before and a truly original tale of love, loss, power, and identity.” Never has a magical world felt quite so otherworldly and yet frighteningly tactile at the same time. At turns hallucinatory, dreamlike, and nightmarish, Black Leopard, Red Wolf’s world envelops the reader in its stink, grime, sweat, and blood. James’tale set in a fantastical ancient Africa follows a hunter known only as Tracker as he trails the scent of a lost boy, meeting a shape-shifting leopard along the way. “Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a shot across the bow of fantasy literature: bold, fresh, and filled with brutal wonder and endless imagination.
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