Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister,eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a blockof flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in thewhole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in hispersonalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen- blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. Withequal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and thepigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strangeelements of his new life in England: watching, listening, andlearning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy isknifed to death on the high street and a police appeal forwitnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murderinvestigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers thefragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keepthem safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harshreality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boybalancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him thattry to shape the way he falls.
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