Summary
Lloyd Jones’s dazzling novel is set on a Pacific Island ravaged by war. Told through the eyes of young Matilda and drawing on the elusive power of great literature, it has caught the imagination of readers the world over.
This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision: ‘We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776950690 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776950690 |
| Author: | Lloyd Jones |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 132g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 111mm x 180mm |
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Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones is one of New Zealand’s best known contemporary writers. He has published essays and children’s books, his distinctive works including the novels The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife, Hand Me Down World, The Cage, The Fish, and the phenomenally successful Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Kiriyama Writers’ Prize. Mister Pip was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007.
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