Cardboard City
ISBN-13: 9781990598104
Contributor(s): Katarina Jovanovic
Subject: General Fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Publisher Imprint: Tradewind
Publication Date: 15-06-2023
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£9.95
About the book
Cardboard City follows the lives of two young teens - members of a Romani family. Saida and Nikola experience harsh discrimination at school and crushing poverty in their informal settlement, spread out under a bridge in Belgrade. Their dreams of escape, and of leaving deplorable conditions behind, trigger a family crisis. In particular, Nikola is a gifted trumpeter and aspires to be a famous musician; but it proves challenging to surmount the enormous barriers between his present situation and the self-mastery and life of dignity he seeks.