Esi Edugyan

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• Washington Black

  Written in English

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  Washington Black

  Washington Black

  Esi Edugyan · 40 when first published

  Novel · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1830, Washington Black, an enslaved eleven-year-old cutting cane on a Barbados plantation, is made the servant of his master's brother Titch, a naturalist, inventor and abolitionist who is building a flying machine.

• Half Blood Blues

  Written in English

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  Booker 2011 · Shortlist

  Half Blood Blues

  Half Blood Blues

  Esi Edugyan · 33 when first published

  Novel · 343 pages · Historical, War

  AIAI-generated summary:Soon after the fall of Paris in 1940, Hieronymus Falk, a young Black German jazz trumpeter, is arrested in a café and vanishes; half a century later his bandmate Sid, the only witness, is persuaded to return to Berlin.