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Forest gatePeter Akinti

Forest gate

1998201 pages
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5 editions
LiteraryYoung Adult

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At once personal and authentic, a story of redemptive love set in the midst of London's urban decay. It's 2006 in Forest Gate, East London. Suicides are on the rise as defeated youths make irreversible decisions. In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends Ashvin and James, stand on top of twin tower blocks. Facing each other across the abyss of London's urban sprawl, they say final goodbyes in the final stages of a suicide pact. The boys jump together, each with a rope around his neck. Only Ashvin dies. James awakes in…

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Editions

5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2009
    Jonathan Cape · 192 pages · 9780224087094
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    Random House Publishing Group · 9781409076070
  • Other · English · 2011
    Penguin Random House · 9780099526926
  • Other · English · 2010
    Free Press · 210 pages · 9781439172179
  • Other · English · 1998
    Penguin Random House · 9781409076087
FictionPoorRace relationsSomalisSuicidal behaviorTeenagersRefugeesLiterature