In darkness
Lake, Nick.
creator
text
nyu
New York
Bloomsbury
2012
monographic
eng
341 p. ; 21 cm.
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
adolescent
Nick Lake.
nwht---
Toussaint Louverture
1743-1803
Fiction
Gangs
Fiction
Survival
Fiction
Violence
Fiction
Haiti
History
Revolution, 1791-1804
Fiction
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010
Fiction
9781408830345
2011022350
110802
20181127175159.0
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