Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones.
By: Jones, Lloyd
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Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due |
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Fiction | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Stack Room | Stack Room | JON | 2 | Reference Only | Temporarily unavailable for check out |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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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Originally publised: 2006.
"On a lush island in the South Pacific, civil war threatens daily life. Thirteen-year-old Matilda and her friends haven’t seen the inside of a classroom for months until the village recluse emerges to breathe life back into an old book. Surrounded by the constant threat of violence, their new teacher introduces the children to a boy called Pip and a man named Mr. Dickens. But on an island at war, the power of stories can have deadly consequences."-- Publisher description.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry, 2007.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2007: 1) Fiction -- Winner. 2) Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry. 3) Readers' Choice Award.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2007: Montana Medal for fiction or poetry.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2007: Fiction.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2007: Readers' choice.
Commonwealth Writers' prize 2007
Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry 2007 Winner.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007 Reader's Choice Award Winner.
Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book 2007.
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