His emissary is the beautiful, light-skinned singer Delilah, with whom Sid falls disastrously in love. That mystique, however, causes Louis Armstrong, in 1939, to summon Hiero and the band to Paris to cut a record. All this is a heavy burden for young shoulders, and it’s hard to locate the individual inside the mystique. He’s also a student of the classics and reads Herodotus. He’s mixed race (African father, German mother), but it’s hard to remember he’s German when we only hear him use black American slang (overdone). Trumpeter Hiero fronts for the band and is the central character. Years later, one of the Germans discovered a jazz prodigy, Hieronymus Falk, the kid (he’s barely 20). (He refuses.) They arrived in swinging Berlin in the 1920’s and joined forces with three German players. Chip the drummer is black Sid, the bass player and narrator, is fair enough to pass for white. Just who are these guys? Two of them, the well-delineated Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, are lifelong friends from Baltimore. Edugyan (a Canadian of Ghanaian descent) has incorporated the novel’s climax in this taut opening. Bam! He’s arrested and deported to a German camp. One of them, without papers, goes out on a reckless search for milk. The musicians are huddled in a shabby apartment. In Edugyan’s second novel, finalist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, some jazz musicians find their music and lives endangered in Nazi Germany and occupied Paris.
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