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In a book that's at the same time powerful, stunning, and fablelike, Lloyd-Jones weaves a transcendent tale that celebrates the strength of the human heart and the ability of plot to change our lives.On a copper-rich exotic area broken by conflict, where in actuality the instructors have left with most everyone, just one white guy decides to remain behind: the odd Mr. W, thing of much attention and disapproval, who sweeps out the wrecked schoolhouse and starts to see to the kids every day from Charles Dickens’s traditional Great Expectations. Thus starts this uncommon, unique tale concerning the strength that creativity, once ignited, can offer. As artillery echoes in the hills, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her friends are riveted from the activities of the young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose curves quickly be much more genuine than their very own blighted landscape.