New boy: Othello retold
(eAudiobook)

eAudiobook

English

9781489404039

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Fiction.

Duration: 05:26:51.

Read by Prentice Onayemi.

'O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back.' Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat?s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he?s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can?t stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime, and practise a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers. Watching over the shoulders of four 11-year-olds - Osei, Dee, Ian and his reluctant ?girlfriend? Mimi - Tracy Chevalier's powerful drama of friends torn apart by jealousy, bullying and betrayal will leave you reeling.

Adult.

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