Half-Blood Blues Edugyan EsiPaperback
Half-Blood Blues Edugyan EsiPaperback Winner of the Scotiabank Giller PrizeMan Booker Prize Finalist 2011An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award…
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Half-Blood Blues Edugyan EsiPaperback
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller PrizeMan Booker Prize Finalist 2011An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for FictionBerlin, 1939. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris caf . The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis.
He was twenty years old, a German citizen. He is never heard from again. 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