**An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat** Eleanor Morse's rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story.
The Boy Who Fell from the Sky
β Scribed by Jule Owen
- Publisher
- Jule Owen
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0993409725
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The Boy Who Fell from the Sky is the first of a mind-twisting new YA dystopian series.
The world is falling apart in 2055. Floods have devastated London on the eve of the First Space War. With the city locked down, sixteen-year-old Mathew Erlang is confined to his house with only his cat, his robot and his holographic dragons for company.
Desperate for a distraction from the chaos around him, Mathew becomes fascinated by his peculiar and reclusive neighbour, August Lestrange. Mathew begins to investigate Mr. Lestrange, turning to the virtual world of the Nexus and Blackweb for answers. But as he digs deeper, Mathew realises that Mr. Lestrange doesnβt seem quite human.
When Mathew accidentally finds himself trapped in Lestrangeβs house, he opens a door and falls four hundred years into the future. Unwittingly, he starts to destabilise the course of human history.
A 1984 for a new generation, The Boy Who Fell from...
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