![]() ![]() I'm glad I decided to read it based on comments I'd seen on various threads.Esi Edugyan tells the compelling story of a group of black jazz musicians from various parts of the world stuck in Berlin (and later Paris) during World War II. Library Thing predicted that I would not like "Half Blood Blues". But it ain’t a man’s whole life.’Īw, hell, Louis, I thought. You got the talent of making others your kin, your blood. And Jones look to you like you his brother. ‘It don’t matter much bout all that anyway,’ Armstrong added. I actually gasped when I learnt what his desperation to be part of something real, something beautiful, something that will live forever drives him to do.Īrmstrong’s voice got real gravelly, real deep and soft, like a pelt carpet. Sid's horrible secret stays so until a climactic finale. These complicated people are so alive, and it is so well written you can almost hear the soulful music blaring from the kids horn, the crunch of the Boots marching past, of their terror. It's a heart tearing story of selfish betrayals mixed with real tenderness. ![]() This story flicks between Germany and Paris in 1939/40 and Europe in 1994. ![]() Jazz players in the same band, Hiero is "the kid", a genius everyone except Sid recognises, until the chasm between their talents becomes blindingly obvious. Sid Griffiths is an ordinary person caught up in an extraordinary time with the freakishly talented Hieronymus Falk. ![]()
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