by Patrick Neate · Gradiva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726628637
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«Blues» is the historical and musical novel by Patrick Neate, published by Gradiva in paperback (420 pages, in Portuguese).
The action begins in eighteenth-century Africa, where a jealous sorcerer sabotages his childhood friend, who ends up captured by slave traders, and ends in contemporary New York. Fortis "Lick" Holden grows up in Louisiana and becomes a jazz pioneer, while other family branches cross paths in New Orleans, Chicago, London and Africa.
The original English title is Twelve Bar Blues. The work won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel in 2001.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction interested in jazz, the African diaspora and family sagas.
