The Book of Harlan (Jacaranda) - Softcover

McFadden, Bernice L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909762431 ISBN 13: 9781909762435

Verlag: Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd, 2016

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"Simply miraculous ... This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty, and at the center of The Book of Harlan is the restorative force that is music." -Washington Post; "McFadden packs a powerful punch with tight prose and short chapters that bear witness to key events in early twentieth-century history ... McFadden presents a remarkably crisp portrait of one average man's extraordinary bravery in the face of pure evil." --Book List

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The Book of Harlan opens with the courtship of Harlan's parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather dies, Harlan and his parents move to Harlem, where he eventually becomes a professional musician. When Harlan and his best friend, trumpeter Lizard Robbins, are invited to perform at a popular cabaret in the Parisian enclave of Montmartre-affectionately referred to as "The Harlem of Paris" by black American musicians-Harlan jumps at the opportunity, convincing Lizard to join him.But after the City of Light falls under Nazi occupation, Harlan and Lizard are thrown into Buchenwald-the notorious concentration camp in Weimar, Germany-irreparably changing the course of Harlan's life.Based on exhaustive research and told in McFadden's mesmeric prose, The Book of Harlan skillfully blends the stories of McFadden's familial ancestors with those of real and imagined characters.

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• Verlag: Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1909762431
• ISBN 13: 9781909762435
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352