It is the year 1991. Bougainville is a small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda's last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the island. Bougainville's children are surprised to find the island's only white man, a recluse, re-opening the school.
It is the year 1991. Bougainville is a small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda's last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the island. Bougainville's children are surprised to find the island's only white man, a recluse, re-opening the school.
Lloyd Jones lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He
travelled to Papua New Guinea at the outset of the blockade and visited
the island twice ten years later; once, to visit the New Zealand
Peacekeeping mission, the second time to stay with Sam Kauona, the
military leader of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army.
