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A young man of great promise when he emigrated from Ghana by way of Oxford University to the New World in 1955, Samuel Tyne was determined to accomplish significant things. Fifteen years later, now a failed and insignificant government employee, Samuel inherits his uncle's crumbling mansion in Aster, a small town in Canada. Despite his wife's resistance and the sullen complaints of his thirteen-year-old twin daughters, Samuel quits his job and...

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History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings?As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. In five wide-ranging essays, written with the rise of the Black Lives Matter m...

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Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers an incisive analysis of the relationship between race and art.

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Escape is only the beginningWhen two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black, an eleven-year-old field slave, is terrified to be chosen as manservant to one of these men. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, an explorer, an inventor and an abolitionist. Soon, Washington is initiated into a world ...

Barbados, 1830: Der Sklavenjunge Washington Black lebt und arbeitet auf einer Zuckerrohrplantage unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen. Bis er zum Leibdiener Christopher Wildes auserwählt wird, dem Bruder des brutalen Plantagenbesitzers. Christopher ist Erfinder, Entdecker, Naturwissenschaftler - und Gegner der Sklaverei. Das ungleiche Paar flieht von der Plantage in einem selbst gebauten Heißluftballon. Es beginnt eine abenteuerliche Flucht, die d...

Barbados, 1830: Der Sklavenjunge Washington Black lebt und arbeitet auf einer Zuckerrohrplantage unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen. Bis er zum Leibdiener Christopher Wildes auserwählt wird, dem Bruder des brutalen Plantagenbesitzers. Christopher ist Erfinder, Entdecker, Naturwissenschaftler - und Gegner der Sklaverei. Das ungleiche Paar flieht von der Plantage in einem selbst gebauten Heißluftballon. Es beginnt eine abenteuerliche Flucht, die d...

Wanneer Washington Black, een elfjarige slaaf op een suikerplantage in Barbados, de persoonlijke bediende van de excentrieke Titch Wilde wordt, krijgt hij de kans op een nieuw leven. Titch is bioloog, ontdekkingsreiziger en uitvinder, geobsedeerd door zijn creatie: de heteluchtballon. Maar de dood van een familielid vermorzelt zijn idealistische plannen en Washington komt in gevaar. Ze besluiten te vluchten, maar dan verdwijnt Titch. Washingto...

One of the TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR New York Times Book ReviewOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe ● The Washington Post ● Time ● Entertainment Weekly ● San Francisco Chronicle ● Financial Times ● Minneapolis Star Tribune ● NPR ● The Economist ● Bustle ● The Dallas Morning News ● Slate ● Kirkus ReviewsOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearEleven-year-old George Washington Black-or Wash-a field slave on a Barbados sugar...

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Nel 1940 Hieronymus Falk, detto Hiero, è un bel ragazzo di colore e un genio della musica. Dei componenti gli Hot-Time Swingers, una band di jazz già nota nei locali più famosi di Berlino e d'Europa, è il talento puro, il trombettista capace di prodigiose improvvisazioni. Nel 1940 gli Hot-Time Swingers e Hiero sono a Parigi, città nella quale sono appena entrate trionfalmente le truppe di Hitler. Registrano un disco, producono un suono strabil...

When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, WASHINGTON BLACK - an eleven-year-old field slave - is selected as personal servant to one of them, the eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde, a naturalist, inventor and abolitionist. His pursuit of the perfect aerial machine sees them escape the island together, but when Titch disappears, Washington must make his way alone.

• TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Slate• ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Boston Globe, NPR, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Economist, Bustle• WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE• FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE, THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE"Enthralling" --Boston Globe "Extraordinary" --Seattle Times "A rip-roaring tale" --Washington PostA ...

Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you.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 fri...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE ROGERS WRITERS TRUST FICTION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year 2018'A masterpiece' Attica Locke'Strong, beautiful and beguiling' Observer'Destined to become a future classic ... that rare book that should appeal to every kind of reader' GuardianWhen two English brothers take the helm o...

• TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, TIME• ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Minneapolis Star-Tribune, NPR, The Economist, Bustle• WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE• FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE, THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE"Enthralling" --Boston Globe "Extraordinary" --Seattle Times "A rip-roaring tale" --Washington PostA dazzling adventure story about a boy who ri...

Nel 1940 Hieronymus Falk, detto Hiero, è un bel ragazzo di colore e un genio della musica. Dei componenti gli Hot-Time Swingers, una band di jazz già nota nei locali più famosi di Berlino e d'Europa, è il talento puro, il trombettista capace di prodigiose improvvisazioni mentre, come Robert Johnson, dà sfrontatamente le spalle al pubblico. Nella band vi sono buoni musicisti, come Chip Jones, ed onesti esecutori, come Sidney Griffiths, afroamer...

The first novel from the acclaimed author of Washington Black—an exploration of explores the sweep of history, the binds of blood, the challenges of middle age, and the pain of exile, witnessed through the experiences of one family whose hope blinds them to threatening forces that could tear them apart. It is 1968 and Samuel Tyne has lived in exile in the chaotic New World for more than a dozen years. Born in Ghana, educated at Oxford, Samuel ...