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Book Synopsis Half-Blood Blues by : Esi Edugyan
Download or read book Half-Blood Blues written by Esi Edugyan and published by Picador. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 café. 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. Esi Edugyan's 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.
Book Synopsis Half blood blues by : Esi Edugyan
Download or read book Half blood blues written by Esi Edugyan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis BOOK CLUB SET. by : Esi Edugyan
Download or read book BOOK CLUB SET. written by Esi Edugyan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Washington Black by : Esi Edugyan
Download or read book Washington Black written by Esi Edugyan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • “A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free.” —Vanity Fair Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash’s head, they must abandon everything and flee together. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again.
Book Synopsis Dreaming of Elsewhere by : Esi Edugyan
Download or read book Dreaming of Elsewhere written by Esi Edugyan and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort to find out if one can belong to more than one place, if home is just a place or if it can be an idea, a person, a memory, or a dream. How "home" changes, how it changes us, and how every farewell carries the promise of a return. Readers of Canadian literature, armchair travellers, and all citizens of the global village will enjoy her explorations and reflections, as we follow her from Ghana to Germany, from Toronto to Budapest, from Paris to New York.
Book Synopsis The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by : Esi Edugyan
Download or read book The Second Life of Samuel Tyne written by Esi Edugyan and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Tyne always believed he was destined for greatness. Emigrating to Canada from Ghana in the 1960'S was the first step on this path, but fifteen years later his grand plans have stalled. He now has a wife Maud, twin thirteen year old daughters Chloe and Yvette, and a mind-numbing job. But then he is thrown a life line. His uncle Jacob dies, leaving him a grand but crumbling house in the town of Aster, and Samuel persuades his reluctant family to seize this chance for a new beginning. At first Aster seems perfect, but soon the town's faultlines are revealed, and the family begins to feel the strain. Samuel opens an electrical shop, but the business falters as he falls victim to his own outlandish ambitions, trying to build computers when all the townspeople want is lightbulbs and radios. His wife is unhappy, and as for his daughters - they are drifting into a private world of two, their behaviour becoming ever more sinister and disturbing to everyone around them. When their school friend Ama comes to stay and nearly drowns in mysterious circumstances, and then a series of fires around the town go unexplained, Samuel and Maud must face up to the secrets within their own family, secrets that threaten to completely tear apart the life they have built.
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Download or read book The Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Malahat Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Out of The Sun by : Esi Edugyan
Download or read book Out of The Sun written by Esi Edugyan and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. Written with the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, in five wide-ranging essays Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences as the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century. With calm, piercing intelligence, and a refusal to think on anyone's terms but her own, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future, and invites the reader to think alongside her in working out what the answers to these may be.
Book Synopsis Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future by : Esi Edugyan
Download or read book Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future written by Esi Edugyan and published by CBC Massey Lectures. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers an incisive analysis of the relationship between race and art. Out of the Sun examines Black histories filtered through and depicted in art, and shows how new perspectives upend the larger, known narrative. History is a construction. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them a centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings?
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Download or read book The Literary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Canadian Silver Fox & Fur written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Garden of Lost Socks by : Esi Edugyan
Download or read book Garden of Lost Socks written by Esi Edugyan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Esi Edugyan debuts her picture book, lovingly illustrated by Amélie Dubois, a whimsical story about friendship, curiosity and the magic of a vibrant community Akosua was always told she was too nosy. Her parents loved her very much, but she always seemed to find trouble. “Trouble isn’t what I find!” said Akosua. “I’m an Exquirologist. What I find is lost things.” This big-hearted picture book debut from one of Canada’s brightest literary stars follows Akosua, a budding Exquirologist, as she finds both a new friend and a remarkable world hidden right in her very own community. Acclaimed artist Amélie Dubois adds a layer of magic to Akosua’s charming adventure with her delicate, compelling illustrations. Each turn of the page pulls readers deeper into Akosua’s journey, daring them to become Exquirologists too, and encouraging them to seek out magic in the mundane!
Book Synopsis Bad Blood Blues by : Paul Sirett
Download or read book Bad Blood Blues written by Paul Sirett and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronts the ethics of HIV/AIDS drug trials in Africa. Performed at Theatre Royal Stafford East.
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Download or read book Britannica Book of the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Talking Book Topics written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
