'Black Leopard, Red Wolf': An ambitious epic tale

By Associated Press

Jun 30, 2019 12:14 am

by Jonathan Elderfield

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead Books; 2019) by Marlon James is a serpentine, epic tale set in a fantastic realm of evil monsters and villains and flawed heroes. At its center is a quest for a boy, a child whom we know is dead from the first line of the novel.

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