Marlon James' book recommendations

The Man Booker Prize-winning author recommends works by James Joyce, Toni Morrison, and more

Marlon James.
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Marlon James is the author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, a novel set in his native Jamaica that won 2015's Man Booker Prize. Black Leopard, Red Wolf, his new fantasy novel, follows a tracker sent to find a lost child in Africa.

Summer Lightning and Other Stories by Olive Senior (1986).

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