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Deal begins:
January 04, 2023
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January 04, 2023
One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize
Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award
The New York Times Bestseller
Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, and The Washington Post
“A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made.” –Neil Gaiman
“Gripping, action-packed….The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
The epic novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning creator of A Brief History of Seven Killings
In the beautiful first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, fable, fantasy, and historical past come collectively to discover what occurs when a mercenary is employed to discover a lacking youngster.
Tracker is understood far and large for his abilities as a hunter: “He has a nose,” individuals say. Engaged to trace down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his personal rule of at all times working alone when he finds himself a part of a gaggle that comes collectively to seek for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of bizarre characters with secrets and techniques of their very own, together with a shape-shifting man-animal generally known as Leopard.
As Tracker follows the boy’s scent–from one historical metropolis to a different; into dense forests and throughout deep rivers–he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to outlive, Tracker begins to surprise: Who, actually, is that this boy? Why has he been lacking for therefore lengthy? Why achieve this many individuals need to preserve Tracker from discovering him? And maybe a very powerful questions of all: Who is telling the reality, and who’s mendacity?
Drawing from African historical past and mythology and his personal wealthy creativeness, Marlon James has written a novel not like something that is come earlier than it: a saga of breathtaking journey that is additionally an bold, involving learn. Defying categorization and stuffed with unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is each stunning and profound because it explores the basics of reality, the boundaries of energy, and our want to know them each.
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