Booker Shortlist 2011: Half-Blood Blues – Esi Edugyan

There was much bemoaning and bewailing last year when not a single Canadian title appeared on the 2010 longlist.  This year the fight back is on with a double whammy on the shortlist – both of which appealed to me right away.  Esi Edugyan’s Half Blood Blues opens in Paris in 1940 as the remaining members of the Hot Time [...]

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