Lit in Translation

Pigeon English

Pigeon English

Stephen Kelman (born 1976)

English editions

Written in English

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Harrison Opoku, Harri for short, is eleven and has recently come over from Ghana, together with Lydia, his big sister, and their mother; he is the second-quickest runner in Year 7, in trainers he has striped himself with a marker pen. High on the ninth floor of a block on a city estate in England, he studies everything around him, working out the rules of survival and keeping a wary, fascinated eye on the older boys who run with a gang at his school. When a boy he knows is stabbed and killed and nobody answers the police call for witnesses, Harri sets out to solve the crime himself, unaware that he is endangering the delicate protection his mother has built around the family.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Coming of age, Migration, Crime (assigned by AI)
Set in
United Kingdom
First published
2011
Author's age
35 when first published
ISBN

9781408810644 (Bloomsbury, United Kingdom)

9780547501680 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, United States)

9780547737423 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, United States)

9781408866597 (Bloomsbury Publishing, United Kingdom)

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