Trumpet Soloist: Mixed Emotions

German Mother Dept: It's a great blessing to be nominated for four awards but there's also a lot of stress, she said, adding that she hoped to relax before attending next week's ceremony to award the Governor-General's Literary Award, for which Half-Blood Blues was also nominated, according to Globe and Mail. Ms. Edugyan s award-winning novel is narrated by a long-retired jazz sideman in 20th-century Baltimore who joins an old friend as they revisit Europe to attend the debut of a documentary film about a legendary German trumpet soloist with whom the pair toured the continent in the 1930s. Sid Griffiths deals with mixed emotions and harsh memories as he recalls the trauma of being a black musician in Hitler s Germany, struggling to make what will become a legendary recording as war descends and fragile trumpeter Hieronymous Falk, the son of a German mother and French colonial soldier, disappears into the maw of the Nazi death machine and a new mother resplendent in a black gown and sparkling silver necklace, Ms. Edugyan offered special thanks to her father, Kweku, an immigrant from Ghana who brought his family to Canada in the 1970s. It's been just a miraculous year in all spheres of my life an embarrassment of riches, she said. I could die tomorrow and everything is wonderful. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.