jamiereadthis
Written on Jun 16, 2020
One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristóbal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are covered in dirt and hungry. They beg food, commit small acts of vandalism, play games that don't seem to have any rules, and communicate with each other in a strange language. No one knows where they come from or where they disappear to each night. And then, they rob a supermarket and stab two adults, bringing fear to the town. Thus begins a fearsome and thrilling modern morality tale that retraces the lines between good and evil, the civilised and the wild, and drags our assumptions about childhood and innocence out into the light.
- ISBN10 1846276934
- ISBN13 9781846276934
- Publish Date 6 August 2020 (first published 1 April 2020)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 March 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Granta Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English
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