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Bougainville Novel Pipped to Post
Bougainville Blue is
a recently published novel set during the island's civil
war. Author Brian Darcey tells the Scoop Review of Books'
JEREMY ROSE he had finished the book before the publication
of Lloyd's Jones phenomenally successful Mister
Pip. Darcey lived on Bougainville for fifteen years and
believes the civil war can be traced back to a single word
uttered by the then Australian Minister for Territories
C.E.B Barnes. A Bougainvillian asked Barnes what locals
could expect to gain from the opening of the Panguna copper
mine, Barnes replied, "Nothing".
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