'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.' Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda's last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the island. When the villagers' safe, predictable lives come to a halt, Bougainville's children are surprised to find the island's only white man, a recluse, re-opening the school. Pop Eye, aka Mr Watts, explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens. Matilda and the others think a foreigner is coming to the island and prepare a list of much needed items. They are shocked to discover their acquaintance with Mr Dickens will be through Mr Watts' inspiring reading of Great Expectations. But on an island at war, the power of fiction has dangerous consequences. Imagination and beliefs are challenged by guns.Mister Pip is an unforgettable tale of survival by story; a dazzling piece of writing that lives long in the mind after the last page is finished.
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It's more like a literary allegory rather than a real story. "Characters migrate", as the book said at the beginning. Literature, or Dickens in this specific book, can help you through the hardest time, though ur life and trouble seem totally irrelavent to ...
评分My only knowledge about Great Expectations is that it is a classic novel by Charles Dickens. I was supposed to read through the novel when in college. But I have so many other things to catch up with as a country girl coming to the big city that I hardly ev...
评分在后殖民主义文学的课堂上读到了这本小书，两百多页出头，阅读体验却并不轻松。故事讲述了二十世纪晚期，当四分之三的世界都沐浴在蓬勃的朝气里，从世纪初的漫长黑夜留下的废墟中兴起时，历史的后坐力狠狠击中了太平洋上的巴布亚新几内亚。殖民主义的崩溃带来了独立，为了建立...
评分My only knowledge about Great Expectations is that it is a classic novel by Charles Dickens. I was supposed to read through the novel when in college. But I have so many other things to catch up with as a country girl coming to the big city that I hardly ev...
评分It's more like a literary allegory rather than a real story. "Characters migrate", as the book said at the beginning. Literature, or Dickens in this specific book, can help you through the hardest time, though ur life and trouble seem totally irrelavent to ...
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不错的一本书
评分融不进去，感觉不到是Matilda在说话。故事还是有点意思。
评分完整读下来的第一本英文书 为了休叔看的~非常忧伤的故事
评分Postcolonial Tragedy
评分完整读下来的第一本英文书 为了休叔看的~非常忧伤的故事
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