Pigeon English
av Stephen Kelman (forfatter).
2011 Heftet
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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 an inner-city 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 urban 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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Utgivelsesår 2011
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9781408810637
EAN 9781408810637
Språk Engelsk
Utgave 1
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[ Slettet bruker ] siterer Pigeon English av Stephen Kelman (side 32)
22:24, 8. oktober 2011 Ingen har det som favoritt.
A name is so Jesus will find you. Otherwise Jesus won't know who he's looking for and you'd just float in space forever.
[ Slettet bruker ] siterer Pigeon English av Stephen Kelman (side 14)
22:26, 8. oktober 2011 Ingen har det som favoritt.
When you're outside school you don't need to know the hour, your belly tells you when it's chop time. You just go home when you're hungry enough, that way you never forget.
Marte siterer Pigeon English av Stephen Kelman (side 210)
22:06, 21. februar 2012 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Do you want to know what I think? And I've been around long enough to have formed a few opinions. What your problem is, you all want to be the sea. But you're not the sea, you're just a raindrop. One of an endless number. If only you'd just accept it, things would be so much easier. Say it with me: I am a drop in the ocean. I am neighbour, nation, north and nowhere. I am one among many and we all fall together.
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