In Darkness
Author(s): Nick Lake
In darkness I count my blessings like Manman taught me. One. I am alive. Two. There is no two. Haiti 2010: in the aftermath of the earthquake a boy lies trapped beneath the rubble: terrified, thirsty and alone. Shorty is a child of the slums, a teenager who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule his broken city: men who dole out money with one hand and death with the other. But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that burns inside him, fuelling his determination to find his beloved twin sister, stolen from him five years ago. In the darkness the lines between the present and the past begin to blur and, as Shorty fights for life, his struggle becomes part of a two-hundred-year-old story - a story of courage and betrayal, of freedom and of hope. Shorty may not be quite as alone as he believes...
General Information
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 01 October 2012
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2013
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Nick Lake
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 352
More About The Product
An audacious and astounding novel that grips the heart and the imagination
American Library Association - Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults: Winner 2013
The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013 shortlist
Unforgettable ... incredibly moving The Times Unputdownable ... In Darkness is both a searing indictment of man's inhumanity to man and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit Daily Mail Very good ... a serious, nuanced, challenging novel Guardian Complex, human and enormously gripping Scotland on Sunday
Nick Lake is the Editorial Director for fiction for HarperCollins Children's Books and is the author of The Secret Ministry of Frost and Blood Ninja. In Darkness, set in Haiti, is Nick's first book for adults and older teen readers. He discovered Haitian culture as part of his Master's Degree in Linguistics and has since been fascinated by it. Nick lives near Oxford.
