Lloyd Jones
Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.68 | 17615 Users | 2086 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Mister Pip |
| ISBN: | 0385341067 (ISBN13: 9780385341066) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Matilda, Mr. Watts |
| Setting: | Papua New Guinea |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2007), ALA Alex Award (2008), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2007), Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2008), Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry (Montana NZ Awards) (2007) |
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In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations. So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, “A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe.” Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.List Of Books Mister Pip
| Title | : | Mister Pip |
| Author | : | Lloyd Jones |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | July 31st 2007 by The Dial Press (first published September 25th 2006) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Young Adult |
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Ratings: 3.68 From 17615 Users | 2086 ReviewsDiscuss Of Books Mister Pip
Unconvincing narrator, condescending, patronizing, less than successful end. Other than that it's an OK story. Note to middle aged white guys - think twice before writing as 13 year old black island girl.I always feel a little bad for rating a book 1 star when I didn't actively hate it (and most other times, let's be honest). But as it stands: I did not like this book and I would not have finished it, if it wasn't so short. I'm of the opinion that anyone is allowed to write about anything, so when I say this book about a young black girl from Bougainville immediately read like it was written from a middle-aged white man, I mean this purely as a literary criticism. So yeah, the white man who
Beautiful, horrific, heartbreaking. And shameful that once again, the world looked away while atrocities were committed.
Wow! I didn't expect this when I started reading. What a well told story.There are opposites throughout: idyllic island surrounding/Victorian London; peaceful island/rebels & militia; Great Expectations/no expectations. The juxtapositions are harsh and affective. Mr. Watts, the only white man on the island, takes it upon himself to teach the children during times of war after the school has been closed. He uses Great Expectations as a textbook, teaching the children of a world beyond their
'Mister Pip' is an amazing book filled with all sides of Life: the good, the bad, and the ugly. There is family, friendship, trust, acts of kindness and wisdom. There is an island, that is home, surrounded by nature and the sea. However, there are also some cringe-worthy, horror-inducing war atrocities. The novel doesn't beautify anything: it shows the inhumanity that war is and made me wonder whether war makes monsters or monsters make war. The novel is written extremely well. Lloyd Jones is a
There are some books that actually make you feel like you are a better person for having read it. This is one of those books.Mister Pip is the coming-of-age story of Matilda, a teenager living in New Guinea during the height of civil war in the early 1990s. Her two greatest influences are her mother and a self-appointed teacher Mr. Watts. The foil between the mother and Watts helps Matilda reveal an authentic, independent self after she watches the two struggle over ideas purported through
Inevitable comparisons...When an uprising on the small island of Bougainville, part of Papua New Guinea, leads to the school in Matildas village being left with no teacher, the one white man in the village, Mr Watts, takes on the role. Unqualified, he decides to inspire the childrens imaginations by reading them a chapter of Great Expectations each day. He also invites the mothers of the village to come to class and impart nuggets of local wisdom. But the uprising is coming ever nearer and soon
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