The Boy Under the Tree
- 216 pages
- 8 hours of reading
After a chance encounter with a beggar girl whom he recognises from his early childhood, Hamza, a thirteen-year-old boy with a traumatic past, sets out on a mission to rescue her and her friends from criminals that force children into begging. Hamza hatches a plan to dispose the leader of a boys' gang and assume de facto control with the aim of utilising the muscle of the gang to liberate the child beggars from the clutches of criminals.
