Nile Baby (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780955507939)

Nile Baby is an imaginatively daring story with a universal appeal, about two young friends - Alice Brass Khan and Arnie Binns, both twelve, both pre-teen misfits - who discover a ninety-year-old foetus specimen in the laboratory storeroom of their school and set out on two very different journeys to return it to its rightful home. Their journeys lead them to discover not only their absent fathers but also other buried and surprising roots. Close to the River Thames and not far from Heathrow Airport, the two friends reunite to find at the end of their adventure that their foetus will insist on its own manner of leaving them.

"A magnificent, important and moving story about the deeply embedded presences of Africa in England today." - Zoë Wicomb, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Nile Baby has been described by Giles Foden as "Grange Hill crossed with Frankenstein - a fascinating read".

Author: Elleke Boehmer
ISBN-10: 0955507936
ISBN-13: 9780955507939
Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2008
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d