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Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, 11-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on an inner-city housing estate in London. 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.
Stephen Kelman (Luton, United Kingdom, 1976) was born and raised on the multicultural, impoverished Marsh Farm Estate, which suffered notorious riots in the 1990s. He studied marketing at the University of Luton and subsequently worked as a warehouse packer, careworker and in his local government administration before writing his debut novel, Pigeon English. Inspired in part by the 2000 murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, the book was the object of a bidding war between 12 publishers and will also be adapted for the BBC. It has been shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
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10/12/2011 ore 16:00
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