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Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER

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Pigeon English Condition:Well Read Butler's novel may be unmatched'Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven year old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner city housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. With equal fascination for the local gang the Dell Farm Crew and the pigeon