Pisarān-i nīkil: Persian 1400

When Ellwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in Tallahassee in the 1960s, is unjustly sentenced to attend a boarding school called Nickel Academy, he suddenly finds himself trapped in a terrifying room. And the only way to save Ellwood is his friendship with a "criminal" named Turner, who despite Turner's convictions that Ellwood is hopelessly naive and that the world is collapsing, the only way to survive in that scheme. And the trouble is avoided. As life at the academy grows more dangerous, the tension between Ellwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose consequences will be seen decades later. This book is based on the true story of a boarding school that has been operating for 111 years and has killed thousands of children and destroyed their lives. The novel Nickel Boys is a devastating and pivotal narrative in which a great American novelist displays his power. This novel has won several awards, including the KIRKUS PRIZE, LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020, and is also one of the New York Times bestsellers.