Mister Pip
By: Lloyd Jones
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780385341066; 9780385341073
Subjects: Books and reading; Storytelling; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "First published by The Text Publishing Company, Australia, 2006"--T.p. verso.

Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist, 2007.