![]() ![]() From there the narrative folds and unfolds into different shapes: The inquisitor makes Tracker read a transcript of their exchange for confirmation, giving us access to outside voices, and later the inquisitor brings a griot, a singer-storyteller, to add testimony about a portion of Tracker's life he refuses to describe. A man called Tracker - the titular Red Wolf - is in prison, being interrogated about that child's murder, and we are witness to his one-sided conversation with his inquisitor. There is nothing left to know" - a statement impressively belied by the book's subsequent 620 pages. ![]() ![]() There are things in one's life that are best appreciated from a distance, and this book is one of them.īlack Leopard, Red Wolf opens with the lines "The child is dead. Excited, I pulled the car up and parked near where I saw the bear vanish, and had my hand on the door before I came back to myself and thought, what am I doing? It's a bear! I drove away unharmed. I saw a black bear cross the road, from fields on the left to the mountain on the right. I was once driving, alone and at dusk, down a dark and winding road that hugged a mountain thick with woods. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Black Leopard, Red Wolf Author Marlon James ![]()
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