
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. Tracker is a hunter, known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose – and he always works alone. 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… I cannot wait for the next installment’ Neil Gaiman 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.

Naipaul who won in 1971.‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. He is the second Caribbean winner of the prize, following Trinidad-born V.

It won the fiction category of the 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, having been the first book by a Jamaican author ever to be shortlisted. His most recent novel, 2014's A Brief History of Seven Killings, explores several decades of Jamaican history and political instability through the perspectives of many narrators. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, is about a slave woman's revolt in a Jamaican plantation in the early 19th century. His first novel, John Crow's Devil - which was rejected 70 times before being accepted for publication - tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957. James has taught English and creative writing at Macalester College since 2007. He received a master's degree in creative writing from Wilkes University (2006). James is a 1991 graduate of the University of the West Indies, where he read Language and Literature. Henry) became a detective and his father (from whom James took a love of Shakespeare and Coleridge) a lawyer. James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents who were both in the Jamaican police: his mother (who gave him his first prose book, a collection of stories by O. Now living in Minneapolis, James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. He has published three novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009) and A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
