Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Paperback Novel

Paperback copy of Half-Blood Blues by Canadian author Esi Edugyan, which won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Book Overview: - Author: Esi Edugyan - Publication Year: 2011Awards: Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize; shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Plot Summary: - The Premise: In 1939 Paris, a young Black German jazz prodigy named Hieronymus "Hiero" Falk is arrested by the Nazis and disappears.The Narrative: Fifty years later, his aging bandmate Sidney "Sid" Griffiths recounts the tragic events and revisits the past in Berlin. - Themes: Explores jazz, race, loyalty, and guilt under the shadow of the Nazi regime.