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2/2/2012
We're celebrating Black History Month all through February with these recommended books, including titles by award-winning authors Esi Edugyan and Austin Clarke.
HALF-BLOOD BLUES by Esi Edugyan $24.95 | Paperback | 978-0-88762-741-5 | Thomas Allen Publishers
Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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. HALF-BLOOD BLUES is an entrancing, electric story about jazz, race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves,…
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