{"id":17839,"date":"2011-11-11T05:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T05:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17839"},"modified":"2019-05-22T00:54:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T00:54:23","slug":"half-blood-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17839","title":{"rendered":"Half-Blood Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasallen.ca\/site\/Title.aspx?ISBN=9780887627415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half-Blood Blues<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/picador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Picador<\/a> (an imprint of Macmillan)<br \/>\n2011-09-03<br \/>\n304\u00a0pages<br \/>\n8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 in<br \/>\nCloth ISBN:9780887627415<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: ISBN: 9781250012708<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esiedugyan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esi Edugyan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasallen.ca\/site\/Title.aspx?ISBN=9780887627415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.macmillan.com\/folio-assets\/macmillan_us_frontbookcovers_1000H\/9781250012708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris<\/a>, 1940.\u00a0 A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nazis<\/a> and never heard from again.\u00a0 He is twenty years old.\u00a0 He is a German citizen.\u00a0 And he is black.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years later, his friend and fellow musician, Sid, must relive that unforgettable time, revealing the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that sealed Hiero\u2019s fate.\u00a0 From the smoky bars of pre-war <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berlin<\/a> to the salons of\u00a0 Paris\u2014where the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Armstrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louis Armstrong<\/a> makes an appearance\u2014Sid, with his distinctive and rhythmic German-American slang, leads the reader through a fascinating world alive with passion, music and the spirit of resistance.<\/p>\n<p><em>Half-Blood Blues<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esiedugyan.com\/images\/half-blood-blues-combined.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half-Blood Blues Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) 2011-09-03 304\u00a0pages 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 in Cloth ISBN:9780887627415 Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 9781250012708 Esi Edugyan Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Paris, 1940.\u00a0 A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again.\u00a0 He is twenty years old.\u00a0 He is a 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