![]() ![]() But the more I read the more I fell in love with the characters, especially Mau. It was slow and comprised of seemingly unrelated stories. Will the voices of his ancestors help him get it back.I originally didn't care much for the story. It is the constant question of religion: is there really a god or did we just make it all up to sleep better at night? Mau has lost his faith and pride. When the raiders come will the nation be strong enough to stand against them?This book isn't just about adventure and cannibals and tree climbing octopi. Now comprised of survivors of the wave from other islands it is still vulnerable to attack. After burying his family and friends, Mau is left to wonder why the gods allowed this to happen.Mau and Daphne, despite some earlier communication problems, begin to rebuild the community that was once the Nation. The wave destroyed his home, and his people, leaving him the only survivor of what was once a prosperous community. There was only one survivor, a young girl named Daphne.Mau was no longer a boy, but not yet a man when the wave came to the Nation. The Sweet Judy rode on top of a tsunami wave to be dropped in the middle of the land, far from the ocean. ![]() In fact it didn't so much as crash as land on the island. The Sweet Judy, a proud and pious ship, has just crashed onto an island called the Nation. It is a good read, chapters are relatively short, the action picks up pace along the pages and the characters could be the metaphor for a new Eden/world, like Adam and Eve, despite other additional people on the island. It doesn.t leave anyone indifferent and our interpretation of the whole can also differ from each other. There is much less humour than in the Discworld novels, it is very different in tone and writing style, with quite possibly some underlying ecological and sociological message behind it all for readers. In this, it can be considered a double 'picaresque' novel, as if Pratchett had recreated a new world from an small island, with not so much a Big Bang, but as the result of a tsunami/earthquake. ![]() My initial impression was that the two characters's experiences on the island were not connected, but the whole novel was about the two characters 'growing up' experience, what they learnt from each other and about others too. It's been a long time since I've read this novel, but I remember quite a few things from it. ![]()
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