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Why Esi Edugyan enjoys a little mystery in her writing.

Esi Edugyan wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Half-Blood Blues is an entrancing, electric story about jazz, race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art. His friend and fellow musician, Sid, is still struggling to come to terms with Hiero's fate 50 years later.

14 must-read works of fiction by Black Canadian authorsĪ vivid evocation of Berlin and Paris during the Second World War, Half-Blood Blues centres around the disappearance of Hiero, a talented young black German jazz musician, at the hands of the Nazis in Occupied France.

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