Esi Edugyan Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Two-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art.

Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one which will propel him further across the globe. From the sultry cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, Washington Black tells a story of friendship and betrayal, love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again--and asks the question, what is true freedom?

Hieronymus Falk ist ein junger und außergewöhnlich talentierter Jazztrompeter, der eine goldene Zukunft vor Augen hat. Zusammen mit den »Hot-Time Swingers« spielt er im Berlin der dreißiger Jahre in Kellerbars – heimlich, denn »schwarze Musik« ist nicht erlaubt. Seine Hautfarbe macht es nicht einfacher, die Gefahr, als Kind einer deutschen Mutter und eines afrikanischen Vaters von den Nazis verhaftet zu werden, steigt mit jedem Tag. Als jedoch die schöne Amerikanerin Delilah auftaucht, scheint nicht nur Hieros Traum wahr zu werden: Sie will die Band nach Paris holen – zu keinem Geringeren als Louis Armstrong, um mit ihm eine Schallplatte einzuspielen. Doch die Ereignisse überschlagen sich und reißen alle Beteiligten mit in eine ungewisse Zukunft …

The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero's fate was settled. In Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don't tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it wrong ...