![]() ![]() ![]() This is the Moon Witch's creation story told from Sogolon's point of view in her vernacular, a patois that's often hilarious and profound in its literal crudeness (metaphor does not come easily to her). Each section moves us closer to the events in the first novel, spiraling around Sogolon's stories reflecting on her Rabelaisian life (it's a perfect word for this novel). ![]() The novel is divided into five meaty sections (two or three might have been enough). In "Moon Witch," James explores the same story of the missing boy (spoiler to say more) as the first book, but from a different character's perspective, Sogolon, the Moon Witch. Like the first book in the trilogy, "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," "time is a cobra," coiling in and around itself in fascinating and fantastic ways. It's vulgar and vivacious, big and brutal, full of rivaling monarchies, Machiavellian ministers, feuding families, revengeful prostitutes, evil priests and a century-old witch, all vying for power in James' extraordinarily imagined African kingdoms. Marlon James' "Moon Witch, Spider King," the second novel in his Dark Star trilogy, is a medieval feast of dazzling fantasy. ![]()
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