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Half-blood blues / Esi Edugyan.
Paris, 1940. A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. He is a German citizen and he is black. Fifty years later, his friend and fellow musician, Sid, must relive that unforgettable time, revealing the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that sealed Hiero's fate. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris - where the legendary Louis Armstrong makes an appearance - Sid, with his distinctive and rhythmic German-American slang, leads the reader through a fascinating world alive with passion, music and the spirit of resistance. Half-Blood Blues, the second novel by an exceptionally talented young writer, is an entrancing, electric story about jazz, race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443433471 (trade pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780887627415 (trade pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 309 p. ; 22cm.
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Thomas Allen Publisher, c2011.
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Awards Note: | Winner of the Giller Prize, 2011. |
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Subject: | Jazz musicians > Fiction. Musicians, Black > Fiction. Germans > France > Fiction. Giller Prize. |
Genre: | Canadian fiction. Black fiction. Musical fiction. |