272 pages
English language
Published July 31, 2007 by The Dial Press.
Mister Pip
3 stars
(8 reviews)
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.
Subjects
- Books and reading
- Storytelling
- Fiction
Places
- Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)
- Nieuw-Zeeland