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Author | : Peter Akinti |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-02-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 143917296X |
A shattering, poetic and raw first novel set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London -- beginning with a double suicide and ending with a rebirth. In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends, stand on top of twin tower blocks. Facing each other across the abyss of London's urban sprawl, they say their good-byes and jump. One dies. The other, alternating with the sister of the deceased, narrates this novel. James gives us a window into the inner city -- his mom is a crack addict, his gang "brothers" force him to kill another black boy. Meina describes with feeling her family history in Somalia: after her parents are killed before her eyes, her village aunt sells her to six husbands -- before she is even a teenager. Desperate to rebuild their lives, James and Meina set out to find the place for which every child longs -- home. Brutal and shockingly violent in places, rambunctious and lively in others and slyly, dryly witty in yet others, Meina and James's journey toward life through their past is ultimately a powerful story of redemptive love and the debut of an extraordinary literary talent.
Author | : Great Britain. Post Office |
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Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Postal service |
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Total Pages | : 818 |
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Total Pages | : 1056 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
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Author | : Cyclists' Touring Club |
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Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Cycling |
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Author | : Cyclists' Touring Club |
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Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 1068 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
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Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Author | : Alfred Cotgreave |
Publisher | : London : E. Stock |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1900 |
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Author | : Joy White |
Publisher | : Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2020-05-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1912248697 |
An uncompromising wake-up call. Joy White tells uncomfortable truths and blows apart our understanding of racism, crime and policing in our inner-cities. Since the 1980s, austerity, gentrification and structural racism have wreaked havoc on inner-city communities, widening inequality and entrenching poverty. In Terraformed, Joy White offers an insiders view of Forest Gate -- an urban neighbourhood in London -- analysing how these issues affect the black youth of today. Connecting the dots between music, politics and the built environment, it centres on the lived experiences of black youth who have had it all: huge student debt, invisible homelessness, custodial sentences, electronic tagging, surveillance, arrest, police brutality, issues with health and well-being, and of course, loss. Part ethnography, part memoir, Terraformed uses the history of Newham, London as an example of inner-city life across the globe and considers how young black lives are affected by racism, capitalism and austerity.