Trash (novel)

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Trash is a young adult novel by British author Andy Mulligan . The English original edition was published by David Fickling Books in October 2010. The German translation by Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn was published in October 2011.

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The street children Raphael and Gardo live on a garbage dump in the Behala slum, where they collect more or less valuable items from the garbage and live on their sale. One day Raphael finds a bag on the heap of rubbish that contains a lot of money, a letter and a key. You are happy about the money and initially ignore the letter and key.

Shortly afterwards, numerous police officers appear at the landfill and ask the residents about the bag. They even offer a substantial finder's reward for it. Raphael reacts suspiciously to the full-bodied promises and withholds the find from the police. However, after his aunt makes a thoughtless remark, Raphael is taken to the police station for questioning.

Although he is severely threatened and abused by the police officers, he does not reveal what he has found. The police finally let him go. Raphael is now certain that the bag must contain a far more valuable secret. With their friend Ratte, Gardo and Raphael go on a search for a train station locker to which the key apparently belongs.

You find the locker and discover a secret message with a number code in it. They learned from the newspaper that six million dollars were stolen from the corrupt vice president.

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The novel was filmed in 2014 under the direction of Stephen Daldry . Trash premiered on October 7, 2014 at the Festival do Rio . In contrast to the book, in which Southeast Asia is the setting, the film takes place in a Brazilian favela . The three main characters were played by amateur actors Rickson Tevez , Eduardo Luis and Gabriel Weinstein . Rooney Mara , Martin Sheen , Wagner Moura and Selton Mello took on other roles .

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