The Boxer by Nikesh Shukla. Leave a Comment / Books by non-white authors, Novels, The Reading List Project / By Jennifer Webb. Recommended by Naomi Murcutt (@NaomiMEnglish) Form and genre: contemporary young adult fiction, prose. Length: pages. Summary: The Boxer focuses on the life of a young Asian boy, Sunny, who has moved from London to Bristol. The Boxer is a penetrating look at the dangers of the rise in racism in post-Brexit Britain, where right-wing extremists feel validated in their fear and dislike of anyone they see as different to themselves Shukla has an enviable ability to get under the skins of his characters, showing life through Sunny's eyes in a way that doesn't pull any punches The Boxer is a book that may well challenge your perceptions /5(83). The story of ‘The Boxer’ is told over ten rounds of a boxing match between main protagonist ‘brown’ Sunny and his ‘white’ training partner. After being beaten up in an unprovoked racist attack Sunny is using boxing to find the confidence to own his own space and to defend himself/5(68).
Buy The Boxer - Nikesh Shukla - at Heath Books. Exclusive Discounts for Schools. We are experiencing large volumes of orders currently so lead times may be slightly longer than usual. Description. Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny. A seventeen year old feeling isolated and disconnected in the city he's just moved to, Sunny joins a boxing club to learn to protect himself after a racist attack. He finds the community he's been desperately seeking at the club. The Boxer by Nikesh Shukla. Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny. A seventeen year old feeling isolated and disconnected in the city he's just moved to, Sunny joins a boxing club to learn to protect himself after a racist attack. He finds the community he's been desperately.
The Boxer by Nikesh Shukla. Leave a Comment / Books by non-white authors, Novels, The Reading List Project / By Jennifer Webb. Recommended by Naomi Murcutt (@NaomiMEnglish) Form and genre: contemporary young adult fiction, prose. Length: pages. Summary: The Boxer focuses on the life of a young Asian boy, Sunny, who has moved from London to Bristol. The Boxer by Nikesh Shuklah is great UKYA. It tells the story of 17 year-old Sunny, who, after a racially motivated attack at a train station, decides to join a boxing club to learn to defend himself. Along the way he meets new friends and makes new enemies as racial tensions in Bristol, where the novel is set, are primed to explode. Writer Nikesh Shukla writes his second young adult novel. The Boxer, about an Asian teenager who gets attacked by a racist mob. The Boxer is about a young Asian kid who takes to boxing in the.
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