by Lloyd Jones · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781921145575
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«Mister Pip» is the novel by Lloyd Jones, published by John Murray in paperback (220 pages, in English).
On the island of Bougainville, in the middle of a civil war, Mr Watts, the only white man in the village, improvises a school and reads Dickens's «Grandes esperanzas» to the children. For Matilda, Pip becomes so real that he protects her from the horror; the villagers begin to tell stories, until the imagination triggers an unforeseen conflict.
Originally published in 2006, it was a finalist for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Kiriyama Prize.
Reading for fans of literary fiction and coming-of-age novels with a war and historical backdrop.
Lloyd Jones was a Welsh poet, novelist and photographer.
