Half-blood blues
A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. He is a German citizen. And he is black. Fifty years later, his friend and fellow musician, Sid, must relive that unforgettable time, revealing the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that sealed Hiero's fate.
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- ISBN: 0887627412
- ISBN: 9780887627415
- Physical Description 311 pages
- Publisher Toronto : Thomas Allen, [2011]
- Copyright ©2011
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General Note: | Contender for CBC's 2014 Canada Reads Shortlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 311) |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 24.95 |
Awards Note: | Scotiabank Giller Prize, 2011. |
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Half-Blood Blues : A Novel
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Half-Blood Blues : A Novel
Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, short-listed for the 2011 Governor General's Award for Fiction Paris, 1940. A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. He is a German citizen. And he is black. Fifty years later, his friend and fellow musician, Sid, must relive that unforgettable time, revealing the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that sealed Hiero's fate. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris - where the legendary Louis Armstrong makes an appearance - Sid, with his distinctive and rhythmic German-American slang, leads the reader through a fascinating world alive with passion, music and the spirit of the resistance. Half-Blood Blues, the second novel by an exceptionally talented young writer, is an entrancing, electric story about jazz, race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.