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Nikesh Shukla

Run, Riot


2018. 272 S. 199 mm
Verlag/Jahr: HACHETTE CHILDRENīS BOOKS 2018
ISBN: 1-444-94068-6 (1444940686)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-444-94068-8 (9781444940688)

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From the editor of The Good Immigrant, an adrenaline-fuelled, powerful YA thriller about
alienation, gentrification and community.
SHORTLISTED IN THE YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018.

From the editor of The Good Immigrant, an adrenaline-fuelled, powerful YA novel about young people taking charge of their own destiny. A novel about standing up and being counted.

Aspiring MC Taran and her twin brother Hari never wanted to move to Firestone House. But when the rent was doubled overnight and Dadīs chemo meant he couldnīt work, they had to make this tower block their home. Itīs good now though; they feel part of something here.

When they start noticing boarded-up flats and glossy flyers for expensive apartments, they donīt think much of it - until Hari is caught up in a tragedy, and they are forced to go on the run.

Itīs up to these teenagers to uncover the sinister truth behind whatīs going on in the block, before it blows their world apart.
This novel is a teenage thriller, tense, absorbing and provocative. Armadillo magazine 20181214
Shukla, Nikesh

Nikesh Shukla is the editor of British Book Award-shortlisted anthology The Good Immigrant, a collection of essays by British writers of colour about race and immigration in the UK. His debut novel, Coconut Unlimited, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and his debut YA novel, Run, Riot, was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Award. Nikesh has written for The Guardian, Observer, Independent, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Vice and BBC2 and BBC Radio 4. Nikesh was one of Foreign Policy magazineīs 100 Global Thinkers and The Booksellerīs 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. He is the co-founder of the literary journal, The Good Journal and The Good Literary Agency.