Oscar

Each time Brad, Oscar P.'s big brother, starts playing the piano, the rain stops, summer returns, and the sun refuses to set. After Brad succumbs to the white plague, Oscar wonders how he can be expected to take his place, until he makes a deal with the devil. Inspired by the life of legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, Mauricio Segura's Oscar evokes the cabarets of the 1950s in this swinging novel, while offering a re- flection on the bonds between an artist and the Caribbean diaspora from which he comes. But above all, it's a poignant homage to a music giant.