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Book Synopsis''This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers'' Edmund White, Washington Post
When Arthur Montana, world-renowned ''Emperor of Soul'', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and their encounters with wealth, love and fame.
Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, Baldwin''s last novel is a monumental saga that ranges from New York to Paris, Korea to Africa to portray how profoundly racial politics can shape life, especially in the private business of love.
''Warm, melancholy . . . Hall Montana''s voice is the conduit for Baldwin''s most distinctive quality as a writer, his abundant tenderness'' The New York Times
Trade ReviewThe best of his work ... stands comparison with any of its period to come out of the United States * The Times *
This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers -- Edmund White * Washington Post *
If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one -- Michael Ondaatje
Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers
* Saturday Review *
