Half of his spirit has travelled backwards to the past, to join with the spirit of one of the great heroes of his country-his ancestor, the slave Toussaint L'Ouverture, who became the leader of the revolution at the end of the 18 th century that feed the slaves and drove out the invading British. All the while he is haunted by memories of violence, and loss, and choices that went wrong.īut Shorty isn't entirely alone in his prison. Trapped in the darkness, with the constant torture of thirst and hunger and pain, he hopes against hope for rescue. It tells of the harrowing days that "Shorty," a Haitian boy, spends trapped in the ruins of a hospital after the earthquake of 2010 sends his world crashing into ruins. My lack of absobtion came not from the quality of the writing, or the intensity of the story, because both were there rather, the story itself is so dark that I couldn't bear to lose myself in it. I read In Darkness, by Nick Lake (Bloomsbury, 2012, YA), in short bits over the course of several months.
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