Half-Blood Blues

Name: Half-Blood Blues
ISBN: 9781846689130

by Esi Edugyan

Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2013 · WinnerAnisfield-Wolf Book · 2012 · WinnerScotiabank Giller · 2011 · Winner

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Serpent's TailSeptember 1, 2011Literary FictionISBN 9781846689130

Award History

Award	Year	Status
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)	2013	Winner
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction	2012	Winner
Scotiabank Giller Prize	2011	Winner

About This Book

In 1940 Paris, jazz musician Hieronymus Falk is arrested by the Gestapo. Sixty years later, his bandmate Sid must reckon with his wartime choices when a documentary revives the past. Winner of the 2011 Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

About the Author

Esi EdugyanCanadian

Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist born in Calgary in 1978. Her second novel Half-Blood Blues (2011) won the Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Washington Black (2018) won the Giller Prize for the second time and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2018. Read more →