Half-blood blues [electronic resource] : A Novel. Esi Edugyan.
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for FictionBerlin, 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 café. 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. 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.
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- ISBN: 9781427222787 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (11 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Macmillan Audio, 2012.
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General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Kyle Riley. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 314283 KB). |
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Subject: | Fiction. Literature. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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