Half-Blood Blues

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• Misplaced Redemption and Bittersweetness in Esi Edugyan's 'Half-Blood Blues'

  When one thinks of the Holocaust, one tends to think of the plight of the six million Jewish people who perished in the Nazi death camps. However, academics are apt to point out that it wasn’t just Jewish people who were affected, even though they we ... (read full critics)

  popmatters published on Mon, 16 Apr 2012

• 'Half Blood Blues' by Esi Edugyan

  A book about jazz musicians living in Berlin during the Second World War isn't something that would normally pique my interest. But this book has been nominated for every award going this year — the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Governor Genera ... (read full critics)

  readingmatters published on Tue, 8 Nov 2011

1 Review

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  Interesting story, uneven writing. The main characters oscillate between near-illiteracy and beautiful lyricism, often within the same paragraph. Weird. Best parts are the descriptions of music-making, very vivid and evocative.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 304 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0886194563
• ISBN-13: 9780886194567
• Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys
• Pub date: Feb 01, 2011
• Also available as: Others

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