Half-blood blues

by Esi Edugyan | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingTrinibellwing of Calw, Baden-Württemberg Germany on 8/8/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by wingTrinibellwing from Calw, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Monday, August 8, 2011
Subtitel:
From Berlin to Paris. Two Friends. One Betrayal

Blurb:
A new part of an old story: 1930s Berlin, the threat of imprisonment and the powerful desire to make something beautiful despite the horror. 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 ...

Journal Entry 2 by wingTrinibellwing at Calw, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Friday, December 13, 2013
(ich bin gerade zu müde und zu faul für einen englischen JE. Außerdem "speichere" englischsprachige Bücher eh immer auf deutsch ab. ;-)

Im Oktober mit dem Lesen gestartet, dann bald genervt und überhaupt sehr leseunlustig wieder beseite gelegt. Dann im späten November wieder aufgenommen, und jetzt so nach und nach und gelesen. Es gab zwar immer noch einige sehr leseunlustige Phasen, aber die lagen definitiv nicht am Buch.

Gestern habe ich das Buch nun endlich beendet und meine Meinung von diesem Buch ist so uneinheitlich wie meine Lesezeit. Es gibt viele schöne Passagen, trotzdem ist es nicht ganz "aus einem Guß". An den Slang, der (vor allem in der wörtlichen Rede) penetrant das Verb to be vermeidet, habe ich mich nach einiger Zeit gewöhnt. Dass die Geschichte auf 2 Zeitebenen, einmal 1939/40, einmal 1992 erzählt wird, hat mir gut gefallen, Und das Ende ist stimmig, was bei einer so "wechselhaften" Geschichte nicht immer zu erwarten war.

Journal Entry 3 by wingTrinibellwing at Calw, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Monday, October 27, 2014
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# Icila, France
# Billbooks, Australia

Released 9 yrs ago (11/2/2014 UTC) at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Baden-Württemberg Germany

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Mailed off to Icila in France.
Bon voyage!

Journal Entry 5 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Thursday, November 6, 2014
Merci.The book arrived today.

Journal Entry 6 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Friday, November 21, 2014
What I found more interesting in the book is the insight in the jazz world in Berlin and Paris during the brown years .

Journal Entry 7 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Thursday, December 4, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (12/4/2014 UTC) at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France

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En route to Australia. Enjoy !

Journal Entry 8 by Billbooks at Malvern East, Victoria Australia on Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Here in Australia will be on my holiday read pile

Journal Entry 9 by Billbooks at Caulfield Station in Caulfield, Victoria Australia on Saturday, October 5, 2019

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