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Immigrant boy navigates inner-city survival, with consequences.

Pigeon English is a gripping coming-of-age story that explores the realities of inner-city life from the perspective of an innocent young boy. Kelman's writing brings to life the struggles of immigrant communities in the UK, without shying away from the harsh realities they face. The story is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching, and will leave readers with a greater understanding of the challenges faced by those who are new to a country and culture.

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.

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ISBN: 9781408826140
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date of Publication: 2012-01-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Goodreads rating: 3.52
(rated by 11507 readers)

Description

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.


Author: Stephen Kelman
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 05 Jan 2012
 

Immigrant boy navigates inner-city survival, with consequences.

Pigeon English is a gripping coming-of-age story that explores the realities of inner-city life from the perspective of an innocent young boy. Kelman's writing brings to life the struggles of immigrant communities in the UK, without shying away from the harsh realities they face. The story is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching, and will leave readers with a greater understanding of the challenges faced by those who are new to a country and culture.

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.