{"product_id":"half-blood-blues","title":"Half-Blood Blues","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHalf-Blood Blues\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEsi Edugyan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781250012708\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePicador\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMan Booker Prize Finalist 2011\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eOprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBerlin, 1939\u003c\/b\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBerlin, 1952\u003c\/b\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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. Esi Edugyan's \u003ci\u003eHalf-Blood Blues\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Half-Blood Blues | Esi Edugyan | Paperback | 9781250012708 | New | Fiction 1588386","offer_id":50641418617090,"sku":"1588386","price":32.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81Sh_El6lHL.jpg?v=1791237991","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/half-blood-blues","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}