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Samuel Tyne always believed he was destined for greatness. Emigrating to Canada from Ghana in the 1960'S was the first step on this path, but fifteen years later his grand plans have stalled. He now has a wife Maud, twin thirteen year old daughters Chloe and Yvette, and a mind-numbing job. But then he is thrown a life line. His uncle Jacob dies, leaving him a grand but crumbling house in the town of Aster, and Samuel persuades his reluctant fa...

Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their "degenerate" music. After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black.Berlin, 1992. Falk, now...

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Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort ...

Diese Fremden sind ganz gewöhnliche Menschen: Sie haben Familie und Nachbarn, führen oberflächliche Gespräche über das Wetter oder ihre Kinder, wohnen in Einzelfamilienhäusern, wie man sie aus amerikanischen Fernsehserien kennt. Francis unterhält sich mit seiner Frau und zieht Bilanz über ihre Ehe, Joe klärt die Schulprobleme seines Sohnes mit seinen Mitschülern und seinem Lehrer, Ragna organisiert eine Party für die Arbeitskollegen ihres Onke...