![]() ![]() The author calls his journey into speculative fiction an “evolution” and not so much a genre changeover as a way to reconnect to storytelling. “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” is, in James’ words, “an old story of the lone hunter, the lone wolf on a mission and interacting a strange land.” It seemed like a departure of styles for James, who spoke more about his writing at the Festival of Books and was also winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. And surely there is more to Blackness and Black history and Africanness than that.” Black Leopard Red Wolf is a lush epic fantasy set in an enchanted and mythical Africa, filled with quests and magical beasts and vicious battles to the death. ![]() As a Black man born in the diaspora, our ground zero tends to be slavery. “I think part of this was searching for my own mythologies. This first installment of the Dark Star trilogy opens this tale about destiny, belief, power, ambition, and most of all the nature of truth. “All my novels have always had supernatural, magical, unexplainable elements,” says James. Tolkien and the Marvel Comics Universe, but his writing and sense of story have a different sense of purpose than both of those fantasy franchises. Marlon James’ New York Times bestselling novel “ Black Leopard, Red Wolf” has been compared to the world-building works of J.R.R. ![]()
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