Description
| Product ID: | 9781839133077 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Door of No Return |
| Title: | The Door of No Return |
| Authors: | Author: Kwame Alexander |
| Page Count: | 432 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage: Poetry, Poetry (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 12 years |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The #1 New York Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing'At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting' Lupita Nyong'oDreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable – a sudden death – occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Yet Kofi’s dreams may be the key to his freedom… The #1 New York Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing''At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting'' Lupita Nyong''oDreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable – a sudden death – occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Yet Kofi’s dreams may be the key to his freedom… |
| Imprint Name: | Andersen Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Andersen Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-05 |
