![]() ![]() THIS BOOK.” I read whatever cheap crap got dumped on the third world. Ron Charles of the Washington Post said that “James has spun an African fantasy as vibrant, complex and haunting as any western mythology and nobody who survives reading this book will ever forget it” the notoriously sniffy Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times declared that “with Tracker and the Leopard, James has created two compelling and iconic characters, characters who will take their place in the pantheon of memorable and fantastical superheroes” there was also a rave on the revered speculative fiction website Tor.com, with the reviewer, Alex Brown, getting himself into a right tizzy: “Y’all, Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a miracle. The critics, whose panegyrics have been appearing over recent weeks, seem to agree. It’s complex, lyrical, moving and furiously gripping. ![]() But the best novels defy the narrow clannishness of genre labels and Black Leopard…is one of them. James’s UK publisher, he says, was worried that it would be “too literary for fantasy fans, too fantastical for literary fans”. I’ve read it twice already, I tell him, and love it as much as any book I’ve read for a long time. ![]() We order and I pull out my tattered proof of the book. ![]()
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