Marlon James is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling, National Book Award-finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf; the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings; The Book of Night Women and John Crow's Devil. In addition to the Booker Prize, his novels have won the American Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Born in Jamaica, Marlon James now lives in New York City.
An epic fable drenched in African mythology. This is work that both
meets the immersive worldbuilding standard in books by Tolkien and
Martin and brings to the genre a voice unlike anything seen before
. . . It sets readers up for what will undoubtedly be a superb
finale
*The Boston Globe*
Booker winner James's African-inspired imaginary kingdoms mark the
series out from the usual run of epic fantasies, but his uniquely
supple, powerful style is even more distinctive
*The Guardian*
Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Moon Witch, Spider King are wildly
inventive, genre-defining works of fiction on the level of The Lord
Of The Rings and the Broken Earth trilogy that deserve to be
studied, dissected, and argued over
*AV Club*
An exhilarating tour de force . . . [James] establishes a new
vision for the trilogy as a whole and confirms Dark Star as a true
epic
*John Burnside*
Moving, vivid, and thought-provoking . . . brilliant
*Buzzfeed*
James cements his status as a wildly inventive and lyrical
storyteller
*Financial Times*
James masterfully flips the first instalment on its head . . . [A]
titanic story of empire, adventure and power
*Esquire*
Told with James' inimitable linguistic verve . . . Riotous,
ultraviolent, dazzlingly inventive
*Literary Hub*
A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with
language as powerful as Angela Carter's
*Neil Gaiman*
James once again shattered my expectations . . . Moon Witch, Spider
King is a breathtaking book, one that functions as well as a
standalone as it does a sequel . . . This is a novel that begs to
be read in one sitting
*NPR*
Even more gripping and inventive than its predecessor . . . like
Tolkien on ayahuasca
*Observer*
This novel's prose style, inspired by the grammar of African
languages, has an intoxicating swagger and energy
*Slate*
James is one of the finest writers at work today, and Moon Witch,
Spider King is a complex, enthralling novel. It is also utterly
uncompromising, a book which the reader must meet on its own
terms
*Toronto Star*
A fantastical epic that draws on African mythology
*The New York Times*
An imaginative story that advances the trilogy in a satisfying way,
deepening and expanding an already epic world
*Time*
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