![]() ![]() ![]() The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, taps a rich, little-known vein of black history. It's a second novel for Edugyan that, like her first, Victoria writer Esi Edugyan reconciles these two haunted histories in a stunningly original work about black experience in Nazi Germany which was this week short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It is a bewildering contest to say the least, for there has always been more than enough evil to go around. Recent decades, however, have sometimes found these two peoples at odds, arguing over who has had it worse. In mid-20th-century America, many Jews supported civil rights by marching alongside black demonstrators. For centuries, Africans in the New World have drawn sustenance from biblical stories detailing the exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. ![]()
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