The Washington Post, August 26th, 2007
MISTER PIP By Lloyd Jones Dial. 256 pp. $20On an island called Bougainville in the early 1990s, civil war rages. Rebels have taken up arms, and soldiers helicopter in from nearby Port Moresby to reestablish New Guinea's sovereignty over the island. All the whites have fled except one: Mr. Watts, a New Zealander married to a local woman. He offers to replace the departed teacher and reopen the village school; on the second day of class, he begins to read Great Expectations aloud. Suddenly, the village's children have a refuge from the incomprehensible conflict engulfing their world. "We could...
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