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Pigeon English

by Stephen Kelman
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  • Booker Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2011)
  • Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee (2011)
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Pigeon English

by Stephen Kelman
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ISBN: 9781408815687
Authors: Stephen Kelman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Publication: 2012-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Young Adult, Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Mystery, Literature, Crime, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.52
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Product Description Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe. About the Author Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. Pigeon English is his first novel; he is currently working on his second.
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Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.