In Darkness
- ISBN10: 1408819953
- ISBN13: 9781408819951
- Author: Nick Lake
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Published: 03/01/2013
£7.99
Shorty is given a choice. But is he man enough to take it? An audacious and astounding novel that grips the heart and the imagination
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WINNER of the 2013 Printz Award.
In darkness, I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
One: I am alive.
Two: there is no two.
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, a boy is trapped beneath the rubble of a ruined hospital, thirsty, terrified and alone. Shorty is a child of the slums, a teenage boy who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime, and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule Site Solèy; men who dole out money with one hand and death with the other.
But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that blazes inside him and a burning wish to find the twin sister he lost seven years ago . . .