In darkness
By: by Nick Lake
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781408824184; 9781408819975; 9781408819944; 9781408826935
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010; Gangs; History
Description: 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.