The first ever essay collection from two-time Booker Shortlistee and Chair of the 2023 Booker Prize - now in paperback
Esi Edugyan Livres
Esi Edugyan est saluée pour sa narration magistrale et son exploration perspicace d'expériences humaines complexes. Sa prose est à la fois élégante et évocatrice, entraînant les lecteurs dans des mondes richement imaginés et des paysages émotionnels profonds. Les récits d'Edugyan abordent souvent des thèmes d'identité, d'histoire et le pouvoir durable de l'esprit humain, rendus avec une voix distinctive qui résonne longtemps après la dernière page.
"Washington Black, an eleven-year-old slave, is chosen to be the manservant of Christopher Wilde who takes him on adventures around the globe."
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero's fate was settled. In Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don't tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it wrong ...
