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Nation by terry pratchett6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When Mau gets home, however, home has vanished. This involves him being taken to a nearby haunted island and left there to find his own way home. It tells the story of Mau, a South Sea islander who is about to move from boyhood to manhood via a traditional rite of passage. As a genre, the desert island adventure story has more than its fair share of masterpieces, including Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island and Lord of the Flies. Nation takes place on a South Sea island in a skewed version of the 19th century. Pratchett himself has celebrated in brilliantly perverse fashion by producing a non-Discworld book. If there's any justice, the Post Office will issue a set of silver jubilee stamps, the government will declare a national holiday, and giant turtles will parade through our municipal parks. I t's 25 years since Terry Pratchett invented Discworld. ![]()
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