Лучшие книги Стивена Келмана

Гарри – абсолютный новичок: в школе, в городе, в стране, в жизни. Они приехал в Лондон из Ганы, где все иное, от неба над головой до отношений в семье. Гарри живет на девятом этаже, и лучший друг у него – серый голубь, прилетающий подкормиться на балкон. Гарри – лучший бегун в школе, и он бежит через жизнь, с восторгом вбирая все хорошее и дурное, что попадается на пути, и только мелькают его белые кроссовки с нарисованными фломастером адидасовскими полосками. Он любит всех, и уставшую маму, и вредную сестру, и хулиганистых приятелей, и своего серого голубя, и даже местную банду. Ведь жизнь так прекрасна и так необычна, все здесь, в Англии,…

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 an inner-city housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. 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 urban 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. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls

Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him.
Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered.
As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.