![]() Half Blood Blues shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism, yet it never becomes over-burdened by its research. Anthony Cummins * Daily Telegraph *Ī mature, moving second novel was very deservedly shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this week. Edugyan has a perfect ear for conversations and the confusions of human love and jealousy. redemptive - Bernadine Evaristo * Guardian * It's a world of characters so realized that I found myself at one point looking up Hieronymus Falk on Wikipedia, disbelieving he was the product of one woman's imagination - Attica LockeĮdugyan really can write. ![]() I felt the whole time I was reading it like I was being let in on something, the story of a legend deconstructed. ![]() A story I'd never heard before, told in a way I'd never seen before. Simply stunning, one of the freshest pieces of fiction I've read. Its author has brought both the wartime past of a devastated city and its confident reinvention of itself in a new era to life with extraordinary assurance. This is a wonderful, vibrant, tense novel about war and its aftermath. Impressively evocative of period and place, and an effortlessly involving and dramatically unusual second novel. ![]() Kate Saunders * Times *Īssured, vivid and persuasive. A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal. ![]()
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