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First novel in The Dark Star Trilogy which follows the mystery of a lost child and a murder. A spectacular, genre-redefining literary fantasy novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS. Drawing from vivid African history and mythology, Marlon James weaves a saga of breathtaking adventure and intrigue - a unique meditation on the nature of truth and power.
Marlon James is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Book of Night Women, and John Crow's Devil. A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize, the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Book of Night Women won the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the NAACP Image Award. Marlon James is a professor at Macalester College in St Paul. He divides his time between Minnesota and New York.