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Half-blood blues / Esi Edugyan.
LIBRA PR9199.4.E35 H35 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edugyan, Esi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz musicians--Crimes against--Fiction.
- Jazz musicians.
- Black people--Crimes against--Fiction.
- Black people.
- Witnesses--Fiction.
- Witnesses.
- Musicians--Fiction.
- Musicians.
- Redemption--Fiction.
- Redemption.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 343 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Serpent's Tail, 2011.
- Summary:
- The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the journey than he thought.
- Notes:
- "Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2011"--Cover.
- Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Fiction , Winner, 2013
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781846687754
- 1846687756
- 9781847656568
- 1847656560
- 9781788161770
- 1788161777
- OCLC:
- 751158611
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