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.
- ISBN10 1599907437
- ISBN13 9781599907437
- Publish Date 17 January 2012 (first published 5 January 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Imprint Bloomsbury Childrens Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English