The Good Thief
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Young Ren is missing his parents and a hand and doesn t know what happened to any of them. So he is beginning to fear that he will never be claimed from his cold New England orphanage: that his dream of a family of a life will come to nothing. But one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the orphanage. To Ren s astonishment, the charming Benjamin Nab says he is his brother, come to bring him home. And even when his stories grow more and more extraordinary, when he puts Ren s life in danger again and again and sets him first to theft and then to grave-robbing, Ren cannot quite abandon hope. That one day all the hunger and danger and unwanted excitement will be worth it, that he will find a family. But whether Benjamin is to be trusted is another story
Author: Hannah Tinti
Format: Paperback, 352 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 240 g
Published: 2009, Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Young Ren is missing his parents and a hand and doesn t know what happened to any of them. So he is beginning to fear that he will never be claimed from his cold New England orphanage: that his dream of a family of a life will come to nothing. But one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the orphanage. To Ren s astonishment, the charming Benjamin Nab says he is his brother, come to bring him home. And even when his stories grow more and more extraordinary, when he puts Ren s life in danger again and again and sets him first to theft and then to grave-robbing, Ren cannot quite abandon hope. That one day all the hunger and danger and unwanted excitement will be worth it, that he will find a family. But whether Benjamin is to be trusted is another story
The Good Thief