Half-Blood Blues - Paperback
by Esi Edugyan
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250012708ISBN-10:1250012708UPC:9781250012708Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, African American & BlackAward:2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner - Fiction Award|2013 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC4VK9QC4C
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris caf . He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952. Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film's premier, Sid's role in Falk's fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250012708ISBN-10:1250012708UPC:9781250012708Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, African American & BlackAward:2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner - Fiction Award|2013 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC4VK9QC4C
Esi Edugyan has a Masters in Writing from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Best New American Voices 2003, ed. Joyce Carol Oates, and Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing (2006).
Her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was published internationally. It was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, was a More Book Lust selection, and was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of 2004's Books to Remember. Edugyan has held fellowships in the US, Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain and Belgium. She has taught creative writing at both Johns Hopkins University and the University of Victoria. She currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia.Publisher: Picador USA
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🏆 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner - Fiction Award|2013 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction Award
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