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In darkness / Nick Lake. |
| Authors: | Lake, Nick. |
| Call number: | TEEN FIC LAK |
| Publisher: | New York : Bloomsbury, 2012. |
| Publication date: | 2012. |
| Subject: |
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction. Gangs -- Fiction. Violence -- Fiction. Teen literature. Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 -- Fiction. Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Fiction. |
| Title: | In darkness / Nick Lake. |
| Physical description: | 341 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Summary note: | In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804. |
| ISBN: | 9781599907437 (hardback) 1599907437 (hardback) |
| LCCN: | 2011022350 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1342347 |
| Bib No.: | 1342347 |