He is part of an Afro American jazz band which is trying to survive the Nazi persecution. It mentions the legendary jazz musician, Hieronymous Falk or the Kid who disappears during the second world war. The book begins with a lovely preface and is followed by an exciting setting. We encounter mixed race, wild music and plenty of verbal idiosyncracy. The storyline and the characters are deeply emotional as all art and artists are understood to be. Half Blood Blues has a jagged tone like the blues and the story drips with pathos. It follows the fortunes of a band of Afro American and an Afro German jazz players who continue to make music through the dread of the war and the debilitating personal feelings of failure and jealousy. Half Blood Blues plays out in Nazi controlled Berlin and in occupied Paris before and during the Second World War. These awards set the stage for high expectations from the book and the Afro-German story set in the World War II promised an extraordinary reading. Half Blood Blues won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller prize in 2011 and received shortlist honours for both the 2011 Man Booker Prize and the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. – David Sedaris, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary She forgot the definition of “jazz” as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain the smell of a baby the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.
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