Mister Pip

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Mister Pip

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Author: Lloyd Jones
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 29/09/2008
Imprint: PENGUIN
ISBN: 9780143008965

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2007
Winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction 2007
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007
Winner of the Kiriyama Writers’ Prize 2008

Lloyd Jones’ new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war.

Matilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By his own admission he’s not much of a teacher and proceeds to educate the children by reading them Great Expectations. Matilda falls in love with the novel, strongly identifying with Pip. The promise of the next chapter is what keeps her going; Pip’s story protects her from the horror of what is happening around her – helicopters menacing the skies above the village and rebel raids on the ground. When the rebels visit the village searching for any remaining men to join their cause, they discover the name Pip written in the sand and instigate a search for him. When Pip can’t be found the soldiers destroy the book. Mr Watts then encourages the children to retell the story from their memories. Then when the rebels invade the village, the teacher tells them a story which lasts seven nights, about a boy named Pip, and a convict . . .

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Additional information

Weight 230 g
Dimensions 197 × 129 × 17 mm

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