There is a man-leopard changing form at will, a giant, a witch, a goddess… So many characters escaped from a universe of fantasy. But in the novel Black leopard, red wolf (Albin Michel editions), they evolve, not in a medieval Europe as is the case in The Lord of the Rings for example, but in a legendary Africa. Close-up on this first part of a trilogy signed by the Jamaican novelist Marlon James.