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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.
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'Simultaneously accurate and fantastical, this boy's love letter to the world made me laugh and tremble all the way through. Pigeon English is a triumph' (Emma Donoghue, author of Room)
'Pigeon English is a book to fall in love with: a funny book, a true book, a shattering book' (Erica Wagner, The Times)
'Stephen Kelman's [first novel] has a powerful story, a pacy plot and engaging characters. It paints a vivid portrait with honesty, sympathy and wit, of a much neglected milieu, and it addresses urgent social questions. It is horrifying, tender and funny ... Brilliant' (Daily Telegraph)
'The humour, the resilience, the sheer ebullience of its narrator - a hero for our times - should ensure the book becomes, deservedly, a classic' (Daily Mail)
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'Pigeon English is a book to fall in love with: a funny book, a true book, a shattering book' (Erica Wagner, The Times)
'Stephen Kelman's [first novel] has a powerful story, a pacy plot and engaging characters. It paints a vivid portrait with honesty, sympathy and wit, of a much neglected milieu, and it addresses urgent social questions. It is horrifying, tender and funny ... Brilliant' (Daily Telegraph)
'The humour, the resilience, the sheer ebullience of its narrator - a hero for our times - should ensure the book becomes, deservedly, a classic' (Daily Mail)
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011
Deeply funny, moving, idiosyncratic and unforgettable, Pigeon English introduces a major new literary talent
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- PublisherBloomsbury Paperbacks
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1408815680
- ISBN 13 9781408815687
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- Number of pages288
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