Half Blood Blues

Half Blood Blues
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  • 作者:Esi Edugyan
  • 出版社:BERTRAM TRADING LTD.
  • 出版日期:2011-06-02
  • 語言:英文
  • ISBN10:1846687756
  • ISBN13:9781846687754
  • 裝訂:平裝 / 256頁 / 13.4 x 21.4 x 3 cm / 普通級 / 單色印刷 / 初版
 

內容簡介

2011年布克獎決選名單
入選加拿大吉勒文學獎、總督文學獎

  這是一部以戰爭為背景的小說。在納粹黨當政後、第二次世界大戰爆發前,德國社會出現許多謠言和局勢不穩定。年輕的Sid是當時頗受歡迎的爵士樂團成員之一,某日演出時,納粹黨員帶走了他們團中的黑人小號手Hieronymus,而Sid是當天唯一親眼目睹整個拘捕過程的樂團成員。

  許多年過去,再度返回柏林的Sid發現了更多有關Hieronymus被捕前後的驚人真相,也才發現到團員之間竟然一直有著深不可測的秘密。

  作者在書中細膩刻畫的背叛,讓人不忍釋卷。在那段彼此懷疑的恐怖年代,彷彿任何事都可能以藝術為糖衣,包覆著最苦澀不堪的人生。
(文/博客來編譯)

  Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011

  Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

  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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