Redeveloping Bougainville

Lloyd Jones’s Man Booker-nominated Mister Pip has led to a project to build a library in Bougainville – where the jungle is taking over a region devastated by 10 years of civil war.

By Pete Carter In Lifestyle

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21st July, 2012

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He was drunk, very drunk, a floppy camouflage hat pulled down over his eyes. There was just him and a friend and me in a potholed suburban street in Arawa. It was Sunday and four in the afternoon. He called out, “Excuse me, sir? Where are you from?” “Wellington,” I replied. “Ah, the capital of New Zealand at the southern end of the North Island. I myself have many friends around the world from the old International School.” He reeled off an impressive list of places. He turned and ejected a long red stream of spittle. “I have never been outside of Bougainville, but I have read ...

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