In this riveting narrative of family and middle-age angst, Esi Edugyan gives us Aster, an all-white suburban enclave. Far removed from the frenzied ways of city life, this small town at first seems an idyllic place to hide away, a place for a man like Samuel Tyne--an African immigrant caught in an impassive marriage, nursing a tenuous connection to his twin daughters, and harboring a growing hatred for his government job--to escape to. When his uncle Jacob suddenly dies, leaving him a rural estate, Samuel promptly packs up his reluctant family, and moves them to his uncle's crumbling...
In this riveting narrative of family and middle-age angst, Esi Edugyan gives us Aster, an all-white suburban enclave. Far removed from the frenzied...
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris cafe. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black.
Berlin, 1952. Falk is a...
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave born on a Barbados sugar plantation. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified. But Christopher Wilde is an abolitionist ready to show him the world. This is 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?
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave born on a Barbados sugar plantation. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his mans...
