Jazz music meets Nazi ideals in 1939 Berlin (en).First edition cover of Canadian release (en).dbc:Scotiabank_Giller_Prize-winning_works.dbr:Rogers_Writers'_Trust_Fiction_Prize.
Some of his music survives, however, and half a century later, fans of Falk discover his forgotten story. Griffiths' friend and bandmate, Hieronymus "Hiero" Falk, is caught on the wrong side of 1939 Nazi ideology and is essentially lost to history. The book's dual narrative centers around Sidney "Sid" Griffiths, a journeyman jazz bassist. Half-Blood Blues (styled without the hyphen in the UK edition) is a fiction novel by Canadian writer Esi Edugyan, and first published in June 2011 by Serpent’s Tail.
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