The Sky Above the Roof

by Nathacha Appanah

Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)

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Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him "Wolf"

She thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural authority, but how could she know that this boy would grow up to be the gentlest and strangest of sons and that he would end up captured like a wild animal

There he is now, in the back of a police van, as we turn the page

It all begins with a crash.

One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother's car and drives six hundred kilometres in search of his sister, who left home ten years ago. Unlicensed and on...

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  • ISBN10 1529408571
  • ISBN13 9781529408577
  • Publish Date 20 January 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Quercus Publishing
  • Imprint MacLehose Press
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 144
  • Language English
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