Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
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Author: Lloyd JonesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-20
ISBN: 0385341075
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Book Review: Mister Pip is a must
Summary: 5 Stars
Set on a war torn, blockaded South Pacific island in the early 1990s, this stunning tale is narrated by Matilda, aged almost 14, when the "redskins" invade. Forgotten and unaided by the white world, the children are taught by Mr Watts, the only remaining white person.
Through his passion for Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations", this eccentric man gradually helps the children to "flee to Victorian England to save their sanity" in an increasingly violent environment. The impressionable Matilda becomes enthralled by and infatuated with Pip, who becomes more real than her own relatives.
The power of memory and storytelling is central to the book. It also explores the theme of the ultimate futility of guilt and blame and what it really means to bear witness. When "Great Expectations" disappears, encouraged by their teacher, the children gradually begin to rebuild the story as well as their lives.
For two thirds of the book, it feels like discovering a contemporary children's classic. Then in one turn of a page all this changes. At one point, Mr Watts says, his beloved book gave him the "power to change his life". Arguably this compelling read will do the same for new generations.
This is a tale of remarkable resilience and survival (for some at least). It will give you an insight more powerful than any harrowing television news clip to which so many in the Western world have become so inured, into the ravages which hostilities can wreak on both the victims and perpetrators. So turn off the TV set and read this book; better still have someone read it to you.
(Warning this book is not for the faint hearted or those too young to be exposed to the atrocities of which their fellow humans are capable.)
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