The glass collector
By: Anna Perera
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780141331157
Subjects: Street children; Ragpickers; Sanitary landfills; Juvenile fiction; Recycling (Waste); Recycling (Waste, etc.); Fiction; Social conditions; Interpersonal relations; Poverty; Children's stories; Refuse and refuse disposal
Description: In Cairo, fifteen-year-old Aaron makes a living out of gathering garbage; as a member of the despised Zabbaleen, this is his fate. But Aaron has dreams. Every day he dreams of Rachel. He dreams that they will make a life together, far from the smells, cruelty and squalour of their daily existence. Suggested level: secondary.