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No bones /

Burns, Anna.

No bones / Anna Burns. - London : Flamingo, 2001. - 321 p. ; 20 cm.

"First published in Great Britain ... 2001" -- verso t.p.

A stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. Every single night and every single day Amelia goes upstairs to look at her treasure: a miniature plastic sheep, a Black Queen chess piece, a penny prayer for serenity, a tube of glitter - and thirty-seven black rubber bullets she's collected ever since the British Army started firing them.

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Novel--English--21st century--Texts.
Girls--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Political violence--Fiction.
City and town life--Ireland--Fiction.


Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Fiction.
Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.


Black humor (Literature).
Bildungsromans.

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