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General fiction, plays for young people and schools, plays. Mar 04, 2011 stephen kelman author of pigeon english bloomsbury publishing. Pigeon english by stephen kelman is the story of a young boy, newly arrived from ghana with his mother and older sister, making his way through the mean streets of london. I wished her car would blow up so i could walk poppy home. This acclaimed book by stephen kelman is available at in several formats for your ereader. Read pdf pigeon english stephen kelman online, read in mobile or kindle. Recently arrived in london with his mother and sister the rest of the family remain in ghana, eleven yearold harri needs to learn the rules and language of the street and quickly. Booker shortlisted author stephen kelman hopes that his adult novel, pigeon. Stephen kelman is an english novelist who grew up on the marsh farm council estate in luton.
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Pigeon english was written in honor of damilola taylor, a 10 year old nigerian boy who was murdered in 2000 in the south london neighborhood of peckham, along with other children in the uk who experience fear and violence on a daily basis, and is also based on the authors own childhood experiences and people he encountered as a child and young. Newly arrived from ghana with his mother and older sister, elevenyearold harrison opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an innercity housing estate. Pigeon english by stephen kelman overdrive rakuten. Pigeon english by stephen kelman lying in front of harrison opuku 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.
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