What must Esi Edugyan do to get a US publisher to release her Half-Blood Blues? The novel is a Booker finalist and now appears on the Giller Prize short list. The only other title honored on both lists is also a second novel, Patrick deWitt's darkly rollicking The Sisters Brothers about a pair of professional killers in California in 1851.
David Bezmozgis,The Free World
Lynn Coady, The Antagonist
Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
Zsuzsi Gartner, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table
Just finished Half-Blood Blues. It's a fantastic book and worthy of the Booker nomination. Reminded me of early Ishmael Reed.
Posted by: Ian Reid | October 06, 2011 at 01:52 PM