The Resource Half-blood blues, Esi Edugyan
Half-blood blues, Esi Edugyan
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The item Half-blood blues, Esi Edugyan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Culver-Union Township Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- "Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now a jazz legend, is the subject of a celebratory documentary. Two of the original Hot-Time Swingers American band members, Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, are invited to attend the film's premier in Berlin. As they return to the landscape of their past friendships, rivalries, loves and betrayals, Sid, the only witness to Falk's disappearance who has always refused to speak about what happened, is forced to break his silence. Sid recreates the lost world of Berlin's pre-war smoky bars, and the salons of Paris, telling his vibrant and suspenseful story in German American slang. Half-Blood Blues is a novel about music and race, love and loyalty, and marks the arrival of an extraordinarily 'gifted storyteller' (The Toronto Star)"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 321 pages
- Note
- Originally published: London : Serpent's Tail, 2011
- Isbn
- 9781250012708
- Label
- Half-blood blues
- Title
- Half-blood blues
- Statement of responsibility
- Esi Edugyan
- Subject
-
- true1990s -- 1990 -- 1999
- trueBetrayal
- trueBlack Canadian fiction
- trueCanadian fiction
- Ex-concentration camp inmates -- Fiction
- trueGermany -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueJazz musicians
- Jazz musicians -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMultiracial men
- trueNazism -- Germany
- Paris (France) -- History -- 1940-1944 -- Fiction
- trueParis, France
- trueRace (Social sciences)
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Reunions -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
- trueBerlin, Germany
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now a jazz legend, is the subject of a celebratory documentary. Two of the original Hot-Time Swingers American band members, Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, are invited to attend the film's premier in Berlin. As they return to the landscape of their past friendships, rivalries, loves and betrayals, Sid, the only witness to Falk's disappearance who has always refused to speak about what happened, is forced to break his silence. Sid recreates the lost world of Berlin's pre-war smoky bars, and the salons of Paris, telling his vibrant and suspenseful story in German American slang. Half-Blood Blues is a novel about music and race, love and loyalty, and marks the arrival of an extraordinarily 'gifted storyteller' (The Toronto Star)"--
- Summary
- Sid, the only one to witness his bandmate's disappearance at the hands of the Gestapo, breaks his silence on the incident over fifty years later when the men are reunited at a documentary premiere
- Award
-
- ALA Notable Book, 2013
- BC Book Prizes, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, 2012
- Hurston/Wright Legacy Award: Fiction, 2013.
- Library Journal Best Books 2012
- Scotiabank Giller Prize, 2011.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10016418
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Edugyan, Esi
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.4.E35
- LC item number
- H35 2012
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Jazz musicians
- Racially mixed people
- Ex-concentration camp inmates
- Reunions
- Paris (France)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Half-blood blues, Esi Edugyan
- Note
- Originally published: London : Serpent's Tail, 2011
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19515445
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250012708
- Lccn
- 2011044816
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (DLC)ocm00085005
- Label
- Half-blood blues, Esi Edugyan
- Note
- Originally published: London : Serpent's Tail, 2011
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19515445
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250012708
- Lccn
- 2011044816
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (DLC)ocm00085005
Subject
- true1990s -- 1990 -- 1999
- trueBetrayal
- trueBlack Canadian fiction
- trueCanadian fiction
- Ex-concentration camp inmates -- Fiction
- trueGermany -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueJazz musicians
- Jazz musicians -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMultiracial men
- trueNazism -- Germany
- Paris (France) -- History -- 1940-1944 -- Fiction
- trueParis, France
- trueRace (Social sciences)
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Reunions -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
- trueBerlin, Germany
Genre
Included in
- trueBC Book Prizes: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2012
- trueScotiabank Giller Prize
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2013
- trueHurston/Wright Legacy Awards: Fiction
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