Half-Blood Blues becomes a best-seller, award-winning book.

Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for the Governor General’s
Literary Award for Fiction

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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 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.

A YouTube reading by the author ESI EDUGYAN