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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
- Dark Star Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
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Summary
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. I cannot wait for the next installment' Neil Gaiman
In this stunning follow-up to his Man Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to imagine an ancient world, a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many answers...
'The child is dead. There is nothing left to know.'
Tracker is a hunter, known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose - and he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters all searching for the same boy. Each of these companions is stranger and more dangerous than the last, from a giant to a witch to a shape-shifting Leopard, and each has secrets of their own.
As the mismatched gang follow the boy's scent from perfumed citadels to infested rivers to the enchanted darklands and beyond, set upon at every turn by creatures intent on destroying them, Tracker starts to wonder: who really is this mysterious boy? Why do so many people want to stop him being found? And, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying?
Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star Trilogy.
'A game-changing modern fantasy classic' Financial Times
'Complex, lyrical, moving and furiously gripping... This new book will propel James into a new galaxy of literary stardom' Observer
'To call this novel original doesn't do [it] justice... James has thrown African cultures, mythologies, religions, histories, world-views and topographies into the mighty cauldron of his imagination to create a work of literary magic' New Statesman
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- T
- 11-09-20
NAME OF THE WIND x PERFUME + MARMITE = INCREDIBLE!
This is quite simply an amazing book written with the kind of detail reserved only for fine embroidery. Like said embroidery, it is captivating from a distance and mesmerising up close. The descriptions, the world building, the depth of characters, the intensity, the pacing, the detail, the poetry, the wisdom, the Africaness, the penmanship - all the above are exquisite, exhilarating and beautifully balanced. This book is a 3 Michelin star experience and Marlon James is a Masterchef!
A word about the narrator Dion Graham because he absolutely smashed this!!!! His voice, his tone, his accent, his emotion, his dynamism really capture the characters in the book and made them live and breathe - especially the main character from whose perspective this book is written. Best book and narrator pairing to date!!!! A word of warning - this is book has so much detail that if you daydream for 30 seconds or more it’s easy to get lost. You’ll be using that skip back button quite a bit...lol...enjoy😉
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- Neozoe
- 17-07-22
Rambling story with exciting memorable characters
I enjoyed the characters and the narration more than the actual storyline which rambled on.
I wish the narrator researched the Yoruba words though
The most visceral reactions I got were in the scenes with the Bad Ibeji. My skin still crawls.
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- Mr. A. J. Quaeck
- 17-06-20
In turn both beautiful and disgusting...
Where to begin?
This is dreamlike prose; bloody and gorgeous and obviously offensive to some. (It’s 2020 people. Read some Burroughs for Christ’s sake!!)
This reminds me of the Vorrh, China Mieville, Jeff vandermeer... it’s meandering but punctuated with enough jarring incidents to keep the listener riveted.
I had no issues with the narrator’s accent and genuinely thought it brought authenticity and flesh to the tale. Even the long train-of-thought monologues were gorgeous to listen to, if a bit head ache inducing at times.
The book is an experience, like a play, a journey. So visual.
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.
Marlon James weaves African bush fairytales with nightmarish characters and head spinning imagery the whole way through.
Try it, if the audio book doesn’t work then give the novel a go.
Brutal, meandering, stunning.
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- w7
- 20-02-19
Unable to listen
I find that another reviewer was spot on: the reader's fake Russian accent and overacted sense of drama and foreboding are unbearable. Will get the print version to read.
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- Rousun Uddin
- 03-10-22
Awful Narration!
Why can't Audible use somebody from Africa, with a genuine African accent? The narrator's African accent was so fake. it was unintelligible. Just because somebody's black (in this case Afro-American) doesn't mean they all sound the same. Anymore than all white people sound the same. At best it's lazy of Audible and at worst it's borderline racist. I've noticed this is common with books written by authors of other nationalities. That said. I'm a Marlon James fan but I found this book so difficult to follow and the narrator certainly didn't help. As someone previously said. It's obsessed with genitals. Too much for my taste I'm afraid.
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- Daniel
- 10-12-23
African dark fantasy
A story set in a primal African world with shapeshifters, witches and black magic, Vivid and dreamlike. Not easy to follow. Great narrator.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-03-19
wonderful prose for a confusing/frustrating story
Fanatastic audio perfirmance helped get through this frustrating book. Confusing story pretty hard to get through and difficult to understand. felt almost like torture porn
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- Cliente Amazon
- 10-07-19
A total headfuck
Took me a while to really work out what was going on and work out the author's style. Glad I stuck with it but I am sure there are bits that went over my head
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-04-19
brilliant book and read beautifully.
The story itself really winds you round and round, making sure you are constantly questioning the characters and allowing you many different points of view at many different times throughout the story
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- Scott
- 13-06-21
Amazing
Overall amazing.
The Narration was amazing. The writing superb.
The characters were beautiful and tragic. An absolutely fresh and exciting listen.
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