The first ever essay collection from two-time Booker Shortlistee and Chair of the 2023 Booker Prize - now in paperback
Esi Edugyan Book order
Esi Edugyan is celebrated for her masterful storytelling and insightful exploration of complex human experiences. Her prose is both elegant and evocative, drawing readers into richly imagined worlds and profound emotional landscapes. Edugyan's narratives often delve into themes of identity, history, and the enduring power of the human spirit, rendered with a distinctive voice that resonates long after the final page is turned.
- 2022
- 2018
"Washington Black, an eleven-year-old slave, is chosen to be the manservant of Christopher Wilde who takes him on adventures around the globe."
- 2014
Dreaming of Elsewhere
- 56 pages
- 2 hours of reading
Esi Edugyan interlaces fact and fiction, storytelling and dreaming to capture the essence of belonging.
- 2013
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
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.
- 2011
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero's fate was settled. In Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don't tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it wrong ...
