Esi Edugyan Libros

París, 1940. Los nazis, que acaban de invadir la ciudad, detienen en un café a un extraordinario trompetista de jazz. Nunca más se supo de él. Se llamaba Jerónimo, tenía veinte años y era ciudadano alemán de raza negra. Cincuenta años después, Sidney Griffiths, miembro de su grupo de jazz y el único testigo que lo acompañaba, todavía se niega a hablar de aquella noche. Sólo cuando, desde el pasado, llegue una misteriosa carta, Sid será capaz de empezar a contarnos esta intensa y emocionante historia que nos llevará desde los bares del Berlín de preguerra a los salones de París y, pasando por la infancia del narrador en Baltimore, al Berlín de la caída del Muro y a la Polonia de nuestros días.

Esi Edugyan interlaces fact and fiction, storytelling and dreaming to capture the essence of belonging.

The first ever essay collection from two-time Booker Shortlistee and Chair of the 2023 Booker Prize - now in paperback

"Washington Black, an eleven-year-old slave, is chosen to be the manservant of Christopher Wilde who takes him on adventures around the globe."

In this riveting narrative of family and middle-age angst, Esi Edugyan gives us Aster, an all-white suburban enclave. Far removed from the frenzied ways of city life, this small town at first seems an idyllic place to hide away, a place for a man like Samuel Tyne—an African immigrant caught in an impassive marriage, nursing a tenuous connection to his twin daughters, and harboring a growing hatred for his government job—to escape to. When his uncle Jacob suddenly dies, leaving him a rural estate, Samuel promptly packs up his reluctant family, and moves them to his uncle's crumbling mansion. But Samuel soon discovers that Aster is not the haven he had wished for. In fact, there's a strangeness to the town only to be outdone by the strangeness of his own daughters, who are particularly affected by the town's odd goings-on, including a number of mysterious fires. In short order, the new life Samuel Tyne envisioned for himself begins to disintegrate as a dark current of menace is turned upon his family. Already a book-club favorite, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne is a foreboding and mesmeric read from a welcome and dazzling new voice.