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Cargando... Half-Blood Blues: A Novel (2011 original; edición 2012)por Esi Edugyan (Autor)
Información de la obraHalf Blood Blues por Esi Edugyan (2011)
  
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 Though Half-Blood Blues may generally have been overrated by critics, it delivers an undeniably potent, soul-searching examination of friendship and trust. This may be a novel about beautiful music in an ugly and terrifying place, all those mellifluous strands of jazz amid the jingoism and cacophony of Nazism. But major historical and literary themes of the 20th century weave through too—racism and the plight of the outsider. The book also probes timeless and universal dilemmas: Should one invest in the notion that art can transcend socially constructed barriers? Should friendship be manipulated or even sacrificed on the altar of professional ambition?  Though "Half-Blood Blues" is a jazz book, its greatest strength lies more in the rhythms of its conversations and Griffiths' pitch-perfect voice than in any musical exchanges. ...[H]is dazed account of a band of weary survivors coalescing around Hiero's "Half-Blood Blues" is intoxicating enough to send you crate-digging through a record store's back room for anything like it. The novel is truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch-perfect male banter and its period slang. Edugyan never stumbles with her storytelling, not over one sentence. The few weaknesses in the plot, such as they are, simply don't matter.  What could have been a great Afro-German story has been sidelined..Despite the book's blurb tantalising us with promises of a black German experience, this novel is really about Sid and his version of events that led up to Hiero's arrest. It's also about his strained relationship with Chip. But as black jazz musicians they are already a familiar motif in American culture, and there's a touch of central casting about their portrayal. And while Sid's slangy vernacular is often charismatic, elsewhere the novel is problematic. It's hard to accept that both men would have chosen to live under the tyrannical regime of the Third Reich.... Much of the power of this unforgettable novel comes from the way its racial themes echo. It is very difficult to perceive and articulate the twisted skein of emotion that is black experience – and yet that is just what Edugyan manages to do with this brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed novel. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction. Pertenece a las series editorialesBBC Book at Bedtime (2011) PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
«Una historia fascinante sobre la verdad y la traición. Una novela brillante y ágil.» The Times«Una potente mezcla de emociones... Escritura magnífica, sutil caracterización de personajes y un retrato muy convincente del lugar y la época en este atractivo trabajo que recuerda al primer V. S. Naipaul.»The GuardianEstamos en Paris en 1940. Los nazis, que acaban de invadir la ciudad, detienen en un café a un extraordinario trompetista de jazz. Nunca más se supo de él. Se llamaba Jerónimo, tenía veinte años y era ciudadano alemán de raza negra.Cincuenta años después, Sidney Griffiths, miembro de su grupo de jazz y el único testigo que lo acompañaba, todavía se niega a hablar de aquella noche. Chip Jones, otro compañero de la banda, visita a Sid y le cuenta que ha recibido una extraña carta. A partir de ese momento, Sid empieza un intenso viaje hacia la redención. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
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Cincuenta años después, Sidney Griffiths, miembro de su grupo de jazz y el único testigo que lo acompañaba, todavía se niega a hablar de aquella noche. Sólo cuando, desde el pasado, llegue una misteriosa carta, Sid será capaz de empezar a contarnos esta intensa y emocionante historia que nos llevará desde los bares del Berlín de preguerra a los salones de París, y pasando por la infancia del narrador en Baltimore, al Berlín de la caída del Muro y a la Polonia de nuestros días.