Kobani - the tragedy and the quarter

A wave of overwhelming sadness hangs over the world of jazz with the death of Joss Moody, the legendary jazz musician, and his death only reveals a great secret he spent his life concealing. Between the dualities of life and death, secret and public, Scottish novelist Jackie Kay explores in her 1998 Guardian Award-winning novel "Trumpet" everything that constitutes the excavations of the human heart and mind. The novel raises burning questions of contemporary times through the axis of identity: how do humans create a meaning that defines their identities, in circumstances that tear them apart and break their convictions and expectations regarding what they believed to be the simplest and most certain truths? And what shapes this identity? Is it your family? your place of birth? your occupation? the people you love? or is it your gender? Amid all these questions and fractures, which make an adopted son chase after his father’s scandalous secret, and the widow of the deceased fleeing to a remote Scottish island, and everyone who knew him trying to reconstruct a life for him, like assembling puzzle pieces, Jackie Kay presents a story about deception and loyalty in a life built on a lie, yet maintaining a rare and unconditional love.