This book was totally different from anything else I have read so far this year. It hit on a variety of topics which made me think and was generally a nice read. Climax: Raphael, Gardo, Rat, and Pia escape to a happy life as fishermen on the beaches of Sampalo.

The main thrust of the story is a mystery based around a bag found by the boys one day which as it unravels throws up a great deal of moral questions about poverty, police and statement corruption and the ever growing divide between the world's most rich and the world's most poor. The story goes along quite nicely and ends with a Robin Hoodesque morale to the story. In truth I didn't find it the most engaging story nor did I think the ending fit with the story as a whole. Slumdog Millionaire meets Robert Langdon in the Philippines! This book nearly killed me with suspense. It was my very first book by Andy Mulligan, but I'm certain it won't be my last.

Andy Mulligan’ın Çöplük isimli romanını yukarıdaki paragrafla özetlemek mümkün aslında. Ancak bu özet, doğru olduğu kadar eksik de. Her şeyden önce, müthiş kurgusuna, çarpıcı gerçekçiliğine ve karakterlerinin derinliğine yapılacak bir haksızlık. 2012 yılında Carnegie Madalyası finalisti de olan Çöplük, gerçekten de temelde bu hikâyeyi anlatıyor; fakat özele inildiğinde, yansıttığı perspektifin, çöp dağları gibi çok katmanlı olduğunu kolayca görülüyor. Andy Mulligan: Stephen Daldry cast three favela kids, with a charisma that lights up the screen – and when I met them on the set I’m afraid they broke me. Photograph: Andy Mulligan Outstanding, hotly anticipated thriller . . . an exceptionally satisfying plot Amanda Craig, The Times

a b Hopewell, John (6 September 2014). "Stephen Daldry's 'Trash' To Close Rio Festival". Variety.com . Retrieved 10 October 2015. Trash essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Trash by Andy Mulligan. I met some streetkids, and Rat was born. Raphael and Gardo were delivered soon after, based on the tenacious beggar boys who’d come out at night as the drinkers got drunker – never to fleece or steal, but always to charm and cajole and beg that little bit more. This is a perfect Middle School book! It is about how three friends found a way out of poverty in the most unusual of circumstances --a modern day rags to riches. It is narrated in turns by all the main characters and some secondary ones, and this revolving-door style works well, reflecting the interdependence of the kids as they solve clues to right a wrong and improve their lot in life.One day, he finds a bag with something inside that will change his world most completely. With his friends Gardo and Rat (his real name being Jun-Jun) he goes to find out exactly what it is he found in this bag. And what he'll find will be something much, much bigger than he ever thought and which will endanger his life. Yeah, this poor dirty starved little garbage boys neither need nor want any of us 'big' people's pity or help, they can create and achieve their own destiny. Hell YEAH! bizim de yakından tanıdığımız bu konu, ilerledikçe kitabın ana teması haline geliyor. Raphael, Gardo ve Jun-Jun, kendilerini, gerçekleri ortaya çıkarmaya da adıyorlar; hem onlara miras kalmış bir mektubun hem de fakirliklerinin yarattığı gururlarının doğrultusunda. Kitap konuya da derinlemesine dalıyor. Çocukların başlattığı hikâye dallanıp budaklanarak hiç beklenmedik bir yere varıyor. Ve vardığı nokta, devletler tarihi ansiklopedisinin istisnasız her sayfasında görülebilen, pis, cerahat dolu ama maalesef tanıdık bir tema: yozlaşmış devlet adamları, yolsuzluk ve rüşvet. A 33-year-old man who is killed by the police during an interrogation just before the start of the story. Although José Angelico dies before the novel’s action, he is central to the plot. José Angelico…

güçlü bir roman. Her şeyden önce, karşımızda okurunun zekâsıyla hiç alay etmeyen bir yazar var. Anlattığı şeyin inandırıcılığını sarsacak hiçbir yola girmiyor; son derece gerçekçi, hakiki bir hikâye sunuyor. Zaten içindeki yolsuzluk teması dünden bugüne, dünyanın her yerinde karşılaşılabilecek cinsten. Setting: A fictional city with a large population of impoverished children and a corrupt ruling elite, centering on a landfill called Behala

The concept was neat. It was a mystery which I don't usually enjoy, but I did want to find out what happened at the end.