Black Leopard Red Wolf Reading Group with Marlon James, Michael Bennett
Date(s): Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Lattie F. Coor Hall Room 4401, Arizona State University, 976 South Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281
Type(s): Book Club, Conversation, Discussion
Genre and Form(s): African American, Fantasy, Fiction, Novels
Cost: Free
About this Event
In anticipation of Reclaiming the Fantasy Novel, a talk and reading with award-winning author Marlon James on January 17, 2019, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) is hosting a reading group for James' latest novel, Black Leopard Red Wolf with ASU Professor Michael Bennett on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Lattie F. Coor Hall Room 4401 (Arizona State University, 876 South Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281).
Please note: Marlon James will not be present at the book club. You do not need to have read the book in order to attend. While encouraged, RSVPs are purely for the purposes of monitoring attendance, gauging interest, and sending information and reminders ahead of the event. Seating is first-come, first-served. You do not have to register or RSVP to attend. This event is open to the public and free.
About the Book
“Gripping, action-packed….The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe.”
–Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
In the stunning first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
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 disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of 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.
As Tracker follows the boy’s scent–from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers–he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?
Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that’s come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that’s also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both. (Description provided by Penguin Random House)
To learn more about Black Leopard Red Wolf, you can visit Penguin Random House's website or order the book through local independent bookstores like Changing Hands or Palabras Bilingual Bookstore.
