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Pigeon English

by Stephen Kelman
₱768.60
Pigeon English - Thryft
Pigeon English - Thryft
  • Booker Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2011)
  • Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Pigeon English

by Stephen Kelman
₱768.60
ISBN: 9780547500607
Authors: Stephen Kelman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date of Publication: 2011-07-19
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Literature, Crime, Mystery
Goodreads rating: 3.52
(rated by 11856 readers)

Description

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.
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  • Booker Prize Nominee (2011)
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Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.