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| Original Title: | Nation |
| ISBN: | 0061433012 (ISBN13: 9780061433016) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mau, Daphne (Ermintrude Fanshaw) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (2009), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2009), Odyssey Award Nominee (2009), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2008), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2009) Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry (2009), Sidewise Award Nominee for Alternate History (2008), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2010) |
Terry Pratchett
Hardcover | Pages: 367 pages Rating: 4.07 | 30775 Users | 2727 Reviews
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Alone on a desert island — everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm — Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He’s completely alone — or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird, and gives him a stick that can make fire. Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She’s certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, that all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship’s parrot, until other survivors arrive to take refuge on the island. Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things (including how to milk a pig, and why spitting in beer is a good thing), and start to forge a new nation. Encompassing themes of death and nationhood, Terry Pratchett’s new novel is, as can be expected, extremely funny, witty and wise. Mau’s ancestors have something to teach us all. Mau just wishes they would shut up about it and let him get on with saving everyone’s lives!
Particularize Of Books Nation
| Title | : | Nation |
| Author | : | Terry Pratchett |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 367 pages |
| Published | : | September 30th 2008 by HarperCollins (first published September 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 30775 Users | 2727 ReviewsJudge Of Books Nation
Disclaimer: I'm about to wax poetic in a totally corny way. Just warning you!I am, and have been for years, of the opinion that Pratchett is the best writer there is. He continually serves up pitch perfect depictions of spectacular characters who are both wonderfully inventive, and at the same time purposefully normal. And in every book, hidden in the hilarity, and the side splitting satire, is a perfect pearl of truth about human nature. I remember when I first found one. It was the slender and2016 Re-read for Sci Fi/Fantasy book club.Seriously, does anyone else want to kick the Nobel Prize committee for not giving Pratchett the award? I wish this novel had been around when I was a kid.older reviewPhilip Pullman is known, perhaps infamously, for His Dark Materials trilogy, which has been attacked because of Pullman's atheist beliefs as well as the endorsement of atheism that book represents. Pullman isn't the only writer to have been attacked due to his view on religion, and I doubt
Unexpectedly, this book is my absolute favorite of all the Terry Pratchett books I've read so far, and I've read a lot.I don't recall there being a lot of fanfare and declarations of love for this book when it was published.I declare love. True loveMau, a native. Ermintrude-Daphne-ghostgirl, a city girl. A tidal wave. Homemade beer from poison (reminiscent of kava). Lots of gods and ancestors. A cursing parrot. Humanity. Hope. Desolation. Telescopes. Pantaloons. A new word for spiders."Insects
Don't let the cartoonish book cover fool you, as it did me--this is a lovely story about two young people from totally different societies, in the nineteenth century. Mau is a boy who has lived on a small island for his entire life. He has just accomplished his month-long rite of passage to manhood. He returns to his home island on a canoe that he built, as a tsunami completely devastates his home. That same tsunami throws a British ship onto the uncharted island, and Daphne is the only
This is YA so I won't give it an official review, but man is it top notch stuff. Faith and desert islands. Foul-mouthed parrots and science. It's a little like Swiss Family Robinson, a little like Casablanca, and a little like nothing I've read before. Grand great stuff.
I suppose that after twenty-five years of writing DiscWorld novels, Terry Pratchett has earned the right to do something a bit different. And different is precisely what he does with his latest novel, "Nation.""Nation" is a story set in a parallel universe to ours, but it's not the world of DiscWorld. (Though it could someday be, I suppose, though I hope Pratchett resists the temptation to "tie together" all his universes). Mau is a young boy, sent on a quest to become a man by his tribe. Daphne
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