Jean Cocteau Cinema Presents Marlon James on April 10!

SANTA FE, N.M. — Join us at the Jean Cocteau for this special Author Event.  Author Marlon James, 2015 Man Booker Prize winner, will be discussing his latest book Black Leopard, Red Wolf with George RR Martin (moderated by Andrea L. Mays, PhD). This event includes an audience Q&A, followed by a book signing in the lobby.

In James’ latest novel, “Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: ‘He has a nose,’ people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy’s scent-from one ancient city to another: into dense forests and across deep rivers-he and the band are sell upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts lo wonder: Who, realty, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is tolling the truth, and who is lying?”

James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also aNew York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.

Please join Marlon James and George RR Martin 6:30 pm Wednesday, April 10, at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma in Santa Fe.

Tickets: https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/purchase

Entry is $10.00 with no book.  $30.00 entry includes the hardcover.