Narrative Landscape Press has just published Marlon James’ latest book, Black Leopard, Red Wolf and is giving copies to two lucky winners.
A statement from the publishers says the competition will run through the month of April.
“Excerpts from the book will be posted on our Medium page with links to the page published on our social media platforms. Readers will answer questions at the end of the month and two winners will be announced. They will receive a copy of the book each,” says the statement.
The statement further explains that this is the first book in Marlon James’ Dark Star trilogy, which he has described as an African Game of Thrones.
“In this book, myth, fantasy and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. The central character Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: ‘He has a nose,’ people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappears three years before, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone and joins a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard,” says the statement.
Praise from acclaimed critics:
Marlon James is one of those novelists who aren’t afraid to give a performance, to change the states of language from viscous to gushing to grand, to get all the way inside the people he’s created… Black Leopard, Red Wolf looks like another great, big tale of death, murder and mystery but more mystically fantastical…Not only does this book come with a hefty cast of characters (like Seven Killings), there are also shape shifters, fairies, trolls, and, apparently, a map. The map might be handy. But it might be the opposite of why you come to James—to get lost in him. – The New York Times
James is a professed fantasy nerd, so Black Leopard, Red Wolf will certainly appeal to fans of all the well-acknowledged authors with at least two initials—George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, etc. But if you’ve read James’ 2014 novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (decidedly not a sci-fi or fantasy book but a 700-page world-building epic about the attempted assassination of Bob Marley), you’ll drag yourself to the midnight queue to buy Black Leopard regardless of the whole Game of Thrones selling point. – Huffington Post
Hollywood actor, Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther) recently acquired the rights to produce a film adaptation of the book through his movie production company, Outlier Society.
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize, for his best-selling novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. This novel also won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Minnesota Book Award, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Marlon James is also the author of two other novels, John Crow’s Devil and The Book of Night Women.