Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 　 "This boy's love letter to the world made me laugh and tremble all the way through. Pigeon English is a triumph." --Emma Donoghue, author of Room 　 "Remarkable . . . Kelman's creation is plausible, convincing and often enchanting." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 　 "Pigeon English in a category beyond genre . . . This [is a] work of deep sympathy and imagination."--Boston Globe "Continually surprising and endearing . . . There's a sweetnees here that's irresistible." -- Washington Post "Ingenious . . . Pigeon English packs a wallop." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "The mystery is secondary to the pleasures of listening to Harri as he prattles on winningly in a mix of street slang and Ghanaian expressions." --Christian Science Monitor 　 "Pigeon English is a fascinating look at a culture pushed to the margins by a nation's economic and empathic indifference." --Time Out Chicago 　 "A startlingly assured piece of work . . .With a very light touch, Kelman makes us view from a new perspective the kind of story we're used to reading about in the newspapers . . . Kelman is a writer to watch." --Mystery Scene 　 "The humour, the resilience, the sheer ebullience of its narrator--a hero for our times--should ensure the book becomes, deservedly, a classic." --Mail on Sunday (UK) 　 "Pigeon English is a book to fall in love with: a funny book, a true book, a shattering book . . . If you loved Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time or Emma Donoghue's Man Booker-shortlisted Room, you'll love this book too." --The Times (UK) 　 "Fantastic . . . it seems hard to believe this is the author's first book." --Guardian (UK) 　 "Like Harper Lee's Scout Finch and Miriam Toews' Thebes Troutman, Stephen Kelman's Harri is an original who seems to breathe real oxygen" --Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) 　 "Rich with lingo, energy, and occasional terror, Pigeon English is a stark and funny look at life in London's rough housing projects. A compelling anatomy of our inner cities, Stephen Kelman's debut novel navigates the hectic, modern world while coping with its most violent accompaniments." --Tony D'Souza, author of Whiteman and Mule 　 "Utterly convincing and deeply moving, this is a book that we should all read if we want to understand the ugly world that we have somehow managed to create on the edges of society." --Clare Morrall, author of the Booker-shortlisted Astonishing Splashes of Colour and The Man Who Disappeared --