Author: Maurice Gee
Publisher: Puffin Books, Penguin Group
Date Of Publication: 2007
Summary:
‘Hari lives in Blood Burrow, deep in the ruined city of Belong, where he survives by courage and savagery’. ‘Pearl is from Company, the ruling families, which have conquered and enslaved Hari’s people’.
Hari and his father Tarl, live in Blood Burrow, which is one of the 5 burrows that Company has enslaved. The other burrows are, Blood Burrow, Keg, Keetch, Basin and Bawdhouse. Hari’s people are being enslaved one at a time, and when his father is branded, he kills a whip (guard) and severely injured a clerk. It was then quickly decided that Hari’s father Tarl, would be greatly punished and sent to be a slave at deep salt.
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