Half Blood Blues: From Berlin to Paris. Two Friends. One Betrayal Book

This is a new part of an old story: 1930s Berlin the threat of imprisonment and the powerful desire to make something beautiful despite the horror. Ernst told them not to go out. Said don't you boys tempt the devil. But the cheap beer in his gut must have made Hieronymus think a glass of milk would be worth the risk. Of course Ernst was right and the star player on the Berlin scene of the late 1930s right before the war began for the second time was taken away that night by the Boots. An easy target being a mixed-race German. Not like the others the Americans Europeans black white and Jewish who could hide a while longer. Fifty years later and Sidney's going back to hear for the first time the unfinished recording the band was making the obsession that kept them there long after it was safe. The thing that stopped them using those visas while they were still good. As Sidney discovers his friends' secrets and wrestles with a few he's kept to himself for half a century Esi Edugyan's novel weaves the horror of betrayal the meaning of courage and the possibility that if you don't tell your story someone else just might tell it for you. And they might tell it different...Read More