Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister,
eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block
of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the
whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his
personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen
- blissfully unaware of the very real threat all 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 life in England: watching, listening, and
learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is
knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for
witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder
investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the
fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep
them safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh
reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy
balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that
try to shape the way he falls.
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