Pigeon English

Stephen Kelman

earliest edition we have, 2011 Bloomsbury, 2011 263 pages

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. With equal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the strange elements of life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to d...

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Pigeon English edition · 2012 · ISIS Large Print · 314 pages · 9780753190500
Pigeon English edition · 2011 · Bloomsbury · 263 pages · 9781408810637
Pigeon English edition · 2011 · De Bezige Bij · 287 pages · 9789023465898

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