In Darkness
Free delivery worldwide
Available. Expected delivery to the United States in 8-11 business days.
Not ordering to the United States? Click here.
Description
A stunning tour-de-force set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. Shorty is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching out to him across two hundred years of history. It is the presence of slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence, and whose own end came in darkness. What unites a child of the slums with the man who would shake a troubled country out of slavery? Is it the darkness they share . . . or is it hope? Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award, In Darkness is a story not to be missed.
show more
show more
Product details
- 12-17
- Paperback | 368 pages
- 130 x 196 x 30mm | 318g
- 28 Jan 2014
- Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
- New York
- English
- Reprint
- 1619631229
- 9781619631229
- 1,058,502
About Nick Lake
Nick Lake is the much-acclaimed author of In Darkness, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, and Hostage Three, which received three starred reviews and was named a Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. Nick became fascinated by Haitian culture while pursuing his master's degree in linguistics. He is also the Publishing Director for fiction at HarperCollins Children's Books UK, and lives near Oxford, England. Visit him online at www.in-darkness.org and on Twitter at @nicklakeauthor.
show more
show more
