The Door of No Return
£8.99
by Alexander, Kwame | Children’s; Young Adult
Published 05/10/2023 by Andersen Press Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of the Door of No Return series
Paperback | 432 pages
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing
‘At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting’ Lupita Nyong’o
Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions.
Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable – a sudden death – occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Yet Kofi’s dreams may be the key to his freedom.