Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Afro-Germans don't usually get a look-in when the narratives of Nazi Germany are told, yet the black presence in Germany goes back to at least the 18th century, and later waves of African immigrants produced German-born offspring who, by the interwar years, numbered several thousand. In this novel, the fictional Hieronymous "Hiero" Falk, around whom the plot revolves, is one of them a Mischling or "half-breed" from the Rhineland.
Hiero is a jazz trumpeter extraordinaire. Only 19, he is a member of the Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band forbidden to play live in late 1930s Berlin because the Nazis have banned their "degenerate" music. Along with two of his fellow band mates, Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African-Americans, Hiero escapes to Paris in 1939 where, when war is declared and the Germans invade, they go into hiding. As they struggle to get forged exit visas to leave France, Hiero and Sid, rather implausibly, roam the dangerous, abandoned streets, despite
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2011
Jamrach's Menagerie
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Shortllisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
London, 1857: after surviving an encounter with an escaped tiger on the streets of Bermondsey, nine-year-old Jaffy stumbles into a job for its owner, the wild animal collector,... Buy or find out more →
Pigeon English
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize
Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate. The second ... Buy or find out more →
The Sense Of An Ending
$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumo... Buy or find out more →
Half Blood Blues
$27.99 – Paperback book / Profile
Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Afro-Germans don't usually get a look-in when the narratives of Nazi Germany are told, yet the black presence in Germany goes back to at least the 18th century, and later waves o... Buy or find out more →
Snowdrops
$19.99 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books Uk
Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
A stunning first novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption.
A. D. Miller's Snowdrops is an intensely riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one ... Buy or find out more →