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Hello Mum is a novella written by British-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo. Published by Penguin Books in 2010, this epistolary novella explores London gang culture from the viewpoint of a 14-year-old boy, Jerome, who communicates with his mother through letters.
- United Kingdom
- Bernardine Evaristo
- March 2010
- Penguin UK
Bernardine’s verse novel The Emperor’s Babe was adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play in 2013 and her novella Hello Mum was adapted as a BBC Radio 4 play in 2012. In 2015 she wrote and presented a two-part BBC Radio 4 documentary called Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement.
An epistolary novella told in the voice of a 14 year old boy writing to his mother who lives on a London estate and gets into trouble with a gang. In this fiction the issue of gang culture is neither demonised or glamourised. Instead, his story deepens our understanding of the context of his life and the decisions he makes that shapes it.
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- Bernardine Evaristo
16 de jan. de 2010 · Bernardine Evaristo. 3.68. 1,657 ratings196 reviews. It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy's mother wonders how this could have happened to her son.
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- Capa Comum
Details. All Editions. Share. About the author. Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora.
