Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011
An "Oprah Magazine" Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for
Fiction
Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been
forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player
Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis
Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris cafe. He is never heard from
again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black.
Berlin, 1952. Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band
members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from
Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are
invited to attend the film's premier, Sid's role in Falk's fate
will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a
surprising and strange journey.
From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris,
Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as
he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led
to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Half-Blood Blues is a
story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we
ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.
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