Pigeon English- US Advanced Reading Copy

Kelman, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0547500602 / ISBN 13: 9780547500607

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 2011

Beschreibung

A US advanced reading copy issued before the main publication of the title. - The book itself is in near fine condition, with only some very light wear to the covers to detract. A nice copy. No marking inside the book.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1580032829711

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Pigeon English- US Advanced Reading Copy
• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0547500602
• ISBN-13: 9780547500607
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

Lying in front of Harrison Opoku is a body, the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his crazy basketball skills, who seems to have been murdered for his dinner.

Armed with a pair of camouflage binoculars and detective techniques absorbed from television shows like CSI,

Harri and his best friend, Dean, plot to bring the perpetrator to justice. They gather evidence&;fingerprints lifted from windows with tape, a wallet stained with blood&;and lay traps to flush out the murderer. But nothing can prepare them for what happens when a criminal feels you closing in on him.

Recently emigrated from Ghana with his sister and mother to London&;s enormous housing projects, Harri is pure curiosity and ebullience&;obsessed with gummy candy, a friend to the pigeon who visits his balcony, quite possibly the fastest runner in his school, and clearly also fast on the trail of a murderer.

Told in Harri's infectious voice and multicultural slang, Pigeon English follows in the tradition of our great novels of friendship and adventure, as Harri finds wonder, mystery, and danger in his new, ever-expanding world.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. "Pigeon English", his first novel, was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the "Guardian" First Book Award, and he was also shortlisted for the New Writer of the Year Award at the 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards. He lives in St Albans.