Name: Mister pip
Price: 362.36 ZAR
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Author: Lloyd Jones
ISBN: 9780385341073

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lloyd Jones

Publisher

The Dial Press

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0385341075

ISBN13

9780385341073

Edition No.

Mister pip

Lloyd Jones (Author) · The Dial Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Mister pip "

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.From the Hardcover edition.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Lloyd Jones

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Lloyd Jones nació en Nueva Zelanda en 1955 y vive en Wellington. Es autor de novelas, relatos y ensayos. Con Mister Pip (Salamandra, 2008) ganó el Premio de Escritores de la Commonwealth en 2007 y fue nominado para el Man Booker Prize.

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