{"product_id":"book-b68r","title":"Half-Blood Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMan Booker Prize Finalist 2011\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eOprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBerlin, 1939\u003c\/b\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBerlin, 1952\u003c\/b\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003eHalf-Blood Blues\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49390141833520,"sku":"BDb68r","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49390141866288,"sku":"40b68r","price":57.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/237668-b68r-Square.jpg?v=1735259373","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-b68r","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}