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Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf won the Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller accolade. Tracker is a hunter. Known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose, 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, each stranger and more dangerous than the last. As the mismatched gang follow the boy's scent from perfumed citadels to enchanted darklands, Tracker starts to wonder: Who really is this mysterious boy? Why do so many people want to stop him from being found? And, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying? Marlon James weaves a breathtaking tapestry - at once ancient and startlingly modern - exploring the fundamentals of truth, limits of power, excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all. Chronicling the same events but telling a very different story - who will you believe?

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Publisher
Penguin UK
Year
2019
ISBN-13
9780241981849
Genre
FantasyFiction
Topics
African mythologyQuest for a lost childTruth and unreliable narrationFound family among misfitsPower and ambition