![]() ![]() Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared. He is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: 'He has a nose,' people say. Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. Try it, if the audio book doesn’t work then give the novel a go. Nominee for Best Fantasy (2019) In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Marlon James weaves African bush fairytales with nightmarish characters and head spinning imagery the whole way through. The fictional Africa in Black Leopard, Red Wolf feels like a place mapped by Gabriel García Márquez and Hieronymus Bosch with an assist from Salvador Dalí. It’s an adventure, but not in the overdone format of the hero arc indeed by the end most messages and lessons are well up in the air for debate! It’s certainly unclear if who our “hero” is anyway. The book is an experience, like a play, a journey. Even the long train-of-thought monologues were gorgeous to listen to, if a bit head ache inducing at times. I had no issues with the narrator’s accent and genuinely thought it brought authenticity and flesh to the tale. ![]() it’s meandering but punctuated with enough jarring incidents to keep the listener riveted. ![]() Read some Burroughs for Christ’s sake!!) This reminds me of the Vorrh, China Mieville, Jeff vandermeer. Where to begin? This is dreamlike prose bloody and gorgeous and obviously offensive to some. ![]()
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