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- 2021
- year of publication
- 160
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- penguin_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-02-4147-609-3
- EAN
- 9780241476093
- Publication date
- 2021-02-25
- Book
- Mr Fortune's Maggot · 4 editions
The publisher on this edition
After three years on the remote tropical island of Fanua, Timothy Fortune, a missionary from London, has made little headway. The islanders show very little interest in Christianity and he has only a single convert: a boy, Lueli. As Mr Fortune's affections for both Lueli and his new island home deepen, he begins to question all his old certainties - until one day he is put to a terrible test. A wry exploration of faith, colonialism and the demands of love, Mr Fortune's Maggot is as quietly subversive as it is delightful.
