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Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. With equal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.
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Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman
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- Année de publication
- 2012
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- Titre
- Pigeon English
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Stephen Kelman
- Éditeur
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publié
- 2012
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1408826143
- ISBN13
- 9781408826140
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, Polars, Littérature contemporaine, Famille, Amitié, Littérature britannique, Enfants, Meurtres, Angleterre, Détective, Vie, Grande-Bretagne, Littérature anglaise, Londres, Violence, Jeunes, Rêves, Enfance, Sœurs, Contemporain, Pauvreté, Meurtriers, Danger, Adolescents, Migration, Course à pied, Immigrants, Gangs, Ghetto, Ghana
- Première publication
- 2010
- Titre original
- Pigeon English
- Évaluation
- 3,45 sur 5
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- Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. With equal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.