![]() ![]() I cannot wait to read what Edugyan writes next. This is a breathtaking book, and deserves a massive, massive audience. Book Review: Half Blood Blues Mother Jones A VOICE OF REASON. It is, simply put, a clinic on how to write a novel that paints a historic era with a fine brush, how to create lasting characters, and how to build a tension that keeps a reader invested from start to finish. It's a brilliant story of friendship, and one of the best books about musicians I've read since The Commitments. It's a top-notch mystery, just an absolute page-turner about a man who goes missing during the rigidly controlled chaos of the Occupation. Sid made the mistake of holding onto Hieros. Even taking this as a valid reason, it still doesn't explain why Half Blood Blues isn't on every bookshelf, because it takes place primarily in Europe during World War II. A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal. In the novel Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan develops the idea that small mistakes can lead to a lifetime of regret. ![]() The publishing industry and the American reading public have a strange aversion to a lot of Canadian literary fiction, wherein a couple of larger names (Ondaatje, Munro, Atwood) break through, but everyone else gets caught in a net that prevent their sales and readership from reaching the levels down here that they do up there. I will go to my grave shouting about how Half Blood Blues is one of the best books of the past ten years. ![]()
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