Pigeon English
-- Room -- A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, -- is a superb portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape who he becomes.
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- ISBN: 9781770890237
- Physical Description 1 online resource 288 pages
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : House of Anansi Press Inc, 2011.
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] House of Anansi Press Inc 2011 Available via World Wide Web. |
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Pigeon English
"Pigeon English is a triumph." -- Emma Donoghue, author of Room Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Guardian First Book Award Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku is the second best runner in the whole of Year 7. Harri races through his new life in England in his Adidas trainers - blissfully unaware of the threats 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 home: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death, Harri starts a murder investigation of his own and endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a superb portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape who he becomes.