Product Description Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers an incisive analysis of the relationship between race and art.Out of the Sun examines Black histories filtered through and depicted in art, and shows how new perspectives upend the larger, known narrative. History is a construction. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them a centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Review PRAISE FOR WASHINGTON BLACKInternational BestsellerWinner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Booker Prize FinalistCarnegie Medal FinalistInternational Dublin Literary Award FinalistWriters’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalist“Terrifically exciting . . . An engrossing hybrid of 19th-century adventure and contemporary subtlety, a rip-roaring tale of peril imbued with our most persistent strife … Discover what the rest of the world already knows: Edugyan is a magical writer.” — Ron Charles, The Washington Post“Riveting … [A] towering achievement … Edugyan is one of our sharpest and deepest writers of historical fiction.” — David Canfield, Entertainment Weekly“A lush, exhilarating travelogue reminiscent of Jules Verne … Edugyan, like her hero, can paint an indelible scene.” — Laura Miller, The New Yorker“Gripping … Astonishing … Washington Black’s presence in these pages is fierce and unsettling. His urge to live all he can is matched by his eloquence.” — Colm Toibin, New York Times Book Review “A wonder of an adventure story, powered by the helium of fantasy, but also by the tender sensibility of its aspiring young hero, Wash Black … Much of the pleasure of reading Washington Black derives from Edugyan’s ingenious storytelling gifts, but her novel is more than just a buoyant bauble … Washington Black is an unconventional and often touching novel about the search for transcendence above categories.” — Maureen Corrigan, NPR/Fresh Air“As harrowing a portrayal of slavery as Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, but also a globe-trotting, page-turning adventure story. A historical epic with much to say about the present-day world.” — Justine Jordan, Guardian “A daring work of empathy and imagination, featuring a Barbados slave boy in the 1830s who flees barbaric cruelty in a hot-air balloon and embarks on a life of adventure that is wondrous, melancholy, and strange.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)“Exquisite.” — Boris Kachka, New York magazine“A full-pelt adventure story featuring hot-air balloon crashes, blizzards in the Arctic, scientific discovery, knife fights in dark alleys, bounty hunters, and forbidden romance, it has the seemingly old-fashioned qualities of being gripping and plot-driven, as well as a novel of ideas … Surprisingly uplifting.” — Francesca Angelini, The Times (London)“Magnificent … By placing a black slave at the heart and centre of this epic romp, by making Wash the explorer of lands, science and art, Edugyan reclaims long-lost terrain in this ambitious, head-spinning work.” — Nilanjana Roy, Financial Times“A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free.” — Vanity Fair“Masterful … Wondrous … Gripping … Edugyan’s depiction of this dark period is vivid and captivating. [She] is too subtle a novelist to belabour her story’s contemporary relevance, but, like the moral stain of human bondage, it is palpable all the same. At a time when blackness still invites unwarranted violence, young Wash’s hard lessons resonate.” — The EconomistPRAISE FOR HALF-BLOOD BLUESInternational BestsellerWinner of the Scotiabank Giller PrizeMan Booker Prize Finalist 2011Governor General’s Literary Award FinalistAn Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year“Unforgettable … Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It’s a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction.” — Globe and Mail“A su