Since the Jamaican Marlon james won the prestigious Booker Prize, his literary career was launched to levels of success commensurate with its quality.
Thus, after his "Brief history of seven murders" arrived in Spain, the publication of the first part of a saga with a metaliterature point also begins, with a clear and dynamic action but with an allegorical and fabulous foundation. Something like Yann Martel with that suggestive novel: Life of Pi, but in the case of Marlon with more development and a point of black gender.
Any metaphorical approach serves the cause of comparison from an external point of view. And in the novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf there is much of that comparative vision to delve into introspective aspects such as fear and other contextual aspects of our civilization such as power, morality and even corruption.
From a strange notion, the brilliant prose of this extensive work goes far beyond an intention to recreate fantastic worlds from which to extract a final moral.
In this story there is violence and mystery, a mirror recreation of our world only alienated by the worst omens of one of those dystopias focused on a small setting. Despite offering an evocative first glimpse of the George RR Martin more immersed in the epic of the fantastic, this first part of the Marlon saga has a noséqué of different, with greater work in the form, always loaded with symbolism, and of greater substance in solving so many enigmas around characters such as the Tracker, the lost child (and perhaps well lost for the peace of all)
Today's adult adventure genre is gaining more and more sophistication, and authors like Marlon James seem to want to take the lead.
At the same time with this saga that points to an anthological discovery of the genre.
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