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Mister Pip

Mister Pip
public rating:
  8.17/10 (6 votes)
original rating:
  8.4/10
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date added:3 years ago
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total votes: 6
listed in: New Zealand Literature Literature
added by : David (175)

Author - Lloyd Jones

Country - New Zealand

Year - 2006

Set on Bougainville Island, Mister Pip is touted as "A love song to the power of imagination and of storytelling, it shows how books can change lives." Mister Pip is narrated by Matilda a Bougainvillean recollecting her life as a 14 year old growing up surrounded by civil war. Mr Watts the default teacher in Matilda's village introduces her to Charles Dickens' Great Expectations leading to strange and ultimately tragic encounters with the bougainvillian 'Rambo's' and the Papua New Guinean 'redskins'. This book is a great read and comes highly recommended.

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Tagged with New Zealand, Bougainville, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, War, Civil War, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Lloyd Jones,
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Total posts: 1
Last night Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip won the Montana award for best book!

Posted by JohnS on 31st July, 2007 @ 09:55


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