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Trash
- Author
- Andy Mulligan
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publish Date
- 27 January 2011
- Run Time
- 5 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it.
Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything.
Soon Raphael and his friends Gardo and Rat are running for their lives. Wanted by the police, it takes all their quick-thinking, fast-talking to stay ahead. As the net tightens, they uncover a dead man's mission to put right a terrible wrong.
And now it's three street-boys against the world...
Critics Review
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One of the most exciting and original novels of the year . . . It's a tight, thrilling story, told from various characters' perspectives and has a Slumdog, feel-good pulse beating through it. A genuine treasure find
Daily Mail
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One of my favourite novels of 2010, now in paperback with a new cover look. Reminiscent of Slumdog Millionaire, three dumpsite boys take on the world in this gripping and intensely moving story . . . Harrowing, exhilarating, humbling and quite brilliant
The Bookseller
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Outstanding, hotly anticipated thriller . . . an exceptionally satisfying plot
The Times
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Great stuff: taut, plausible and thought-provoking
Daily Telegraph
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Trash is a thriller with moral weight and a complex structure . . . Without ever moralising, Mulligan raises issues of corruption, poverty, waste and excess in an exciting, but also grimly sad tale
Financial Times
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Wonderful - an exciting story with engaging characters told in a clever way with spare but lyrical prose . . . Trash comes highly recommended by me, and I don't have time to say any more about it because I'm off to read it again. And after that, I might read it again. And then again. You read it too
The Bookbag
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A superbly original tale
The Sun
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This is a highly entertaining and very satisfying book which should be recommended to all. It needs to be read.
The Bookseller
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Harrowing, exhilarating, humbling and quite brilliant
The Bookseller
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Headlong and heart-stopping, this is an adventure you just can't put down
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Details
- Author
- Andy Mulligan
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 5 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 January 2011
- ISBN
- 9781446403549
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage: Social topics: Poverty / precarity, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Synopsis
Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it.Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything.Soon Raphael and his friends Gardo and Rat are running for their lives. Wanted by the police, it takes all their quick-thinking, fast-talking to stay ahead. As the net tightens, they uncover a dead man's mission to put right a terrible wrong.And now it's three street-boys against the world...
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