In Darkness

Nick Lake

In Darkness
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 January 2013
Pages
352
ISBN
9781408819951

In Darkness

Nick Lake

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 Soley; 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 …

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