- Title:
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Mister Pip (MP3)
- Written by:
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Lloyd Jones
- Read by:
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Susan Lyons
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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7 hours 22 minutes
- MP3 size:
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321 MB
- Published:
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July 28 2018
- Available Date:
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July 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489450258
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; New Zealand Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Winner The Commonwealth Writer's Prize / Best Book (South East Asia and South Pacific Region) 2007
Shortlisted The Man Booker Prize 2007
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip is a modern tragedy set on a tiny copper-rich tropical island embattled by internal strife.
After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda's island, there comes a time when all the white people have left. Only Mr Watts remains, and he wears a red nose and pulls his wife around on a trolley; the kids call him Popeye behind his back. But there is no one else to teach them their lessons, and no books left to learn from – except for Mr Watts's battered copy of Great Expectations, 'by my friend Mr Dickens'.
As Mr Watts stands before the class and reads, Dickens's hero, Pip, starts to come alive in Matilda's imagination. Soon he has become as real to her as her own family, and the greatest friendship of her life has begun. But Matilda is not the only one who believes in Pip. And on an island at war, the power of the imagination can be a dangerously provocative thing.
A dazzling achievement, Mister Pip is a love song to the power of storytelling. It is about belonging and losing one's way, about love, grief and memory, and it shows how books can change our lives forever.
'Mister Pip is a poignant and impressive work which can take its place alongside the classical novels of adolescence'.'
The Times Literary Supplement
''It's clear from the first page that this is prize-winning stuff ...'
The Times
'In this dazzling story-within-a-story, Jones has created a microcosm of post-colonial literature, hybridising the narratives of back and white races to create a new and resonant fable ...'
The Observer