Book Review: Trash
Book Name: Trash
Author: Andy Mulligan
Cover: Dylan
Publisher: Penguin
Review
The story is about three teenagers in Tokai(poor street children). They live in a garbage can in a city in Brazil. Rafael Fernandez, Gardo and Ryatt.Their job all day is to find valuables in the garbage, such as plastic, rubber, etc. But all they always get are stupas, human excrement. One day, they found a leather bag that changed the lives of the boys. The story of the book. They found a letter in the bag and if they could solve it, they would become the owners of the Vice President’s 60 million! But to get the money, they would have to figure out another complex code of this letter. How can a boy do so much when the vice president himself is behind it?
As soon as they got this secret, some ruthless people of the society followed them. The life of these boys was nothing more than rubbish for them. This illegal money is just three people to break the letter and code to bring out?
Another question remains, how did that bag come to be in the rubbish bin, the bag or who owns it? Who wrote the letter or the code which can be solved by getting 60 lakh dollars? The answer to this question can be found in Andy Mulligan’s novel Trash.
When three trash-picking boys from Rio’s slums find a wallet amongst the daily detritus of their local dump, little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet’s return, the boys realize that what they’ve found must be important. Based on Andy Mulligan’s best-selling novel, Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen, Wagner Moura and Selton Mello star in this thrilling adventure directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Richard Curtis.
I would say that this book would appeal equally to boys and girls, probably from age 11 upwards as there are some descriptions of police brutality which might upset younger children. I thought it was a brilliant book.
About Author
Andy Mulligan was brought up in the south of London. He worked as a theatre director for ten years before his travels in Asia prompted him to retrain as a teacher. He has taught English and drama in India, Brazil, the Philippines and the UK. He now divides his time between London and Manila.
