Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose,” people say.

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. »Man Booker Prize«-Träger Marlon James legt mit »Schwarzer Leopard, roter Wolf« den Auftakt zu einer Trilogie vor, die afrikanische Geschichte und Mythen zu einem gewaltigen Fantasy-Epos verflicht. Aber kann er den Jungen retten und die Welten wieder in Einklang bringen?

Seine Fährte führt ihn durch Wälder und Städte, zu Gestaltwandlern, Ausgestoßenen und Hexen. Er muss einen Jungen aufspüren, der vor drei Jahren spurlos verschwand. Tolkien may have built Middle Earth on the bedrock of Beowulf, but James will also be rooting his novels in African epics as old as the English epic poem.Sucher, der Jäger mit dem besonderen Sinn, wird vor seine schwierigste Aufgabe gestellt. According to him, the idea for The Dark Star stemmed from an argument he had with his friend, which revolved around ethnic and cultural diversity within the fantasy genre and led James to realize that a huge reservoir of African cultural and literary history lay waiting to be tapped. In the end, five of the eight mercenaries, as well as the child, were dead.” The three volumes in the series-titled Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Moon Witch, Night Devil and The Boy and the Dark Star-each track one character’s telling of what occurred over those nine years, collectively amounting to a literary version of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, which James cites as an influence.īut the bulk of the inspiration for these novels is a mixture of widely read fantasy classics- The Lord of the Rings novels, Earthsea, Game of Thrones-and African folklore, the latter of which James feels especially drawn toward. They were three of eight mercenaries who had been hired to find the child the search, expected to take two months, took nine years. Per the official summary, the series focuses on three characters who are “locked in a dungeon in the castle of a dying king, awaiting torture and trial for the death of a child.

This news was recently divulged in an Entertainment Weekly interview with James, during which the author shared details about the forthcoming books, which are set to be published by Riverhead. Following the Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, novelist Marlon James’ next project will be an epic fantasy series titled The Dark Star Trilogy.

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