Author: esiedugyan

A “fascinating and enjoyable” New York Times bestseller (The Guardian): Washington Black, an enslaved boy, leaves Barbados with an eccentric abolitionist — and their harrowing journey will change him forever. “A wonder of an adventure story” (NPR).

Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize 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 … musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952.…