Nation is a novel by Terry Pratchett, published in the UK on 11 September 2008 [1] and in the US on 6 October 2009. [2] . It was the first non- Discworld Pratchett novel since Johnny and the Bomb (1996). Nation is a low fantasy set in an alternative history of our world in the 1860s.

Jan 1, 2008 · Supposedly a children's book, Nation tells the story of Mau who loses his whole Nation, his whole tribe, when a tsunami hits his island home. Eventually, Mau discovers Daphne, a "ghost" girl who was washed up by the same wave.

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Wise, witty and filled with Terry Pratchett's inimitable comic satire, this adventure turns the world upside down. On the day the world ends, Mau is on his way home from the Boys’ Island. Soon he will be a man.

Nation (2008), an allegorical adventure novel by English fantasy author Terry Pratchett, concerns the small society that a boy and girl build on a remote island in the wake of a devastating tidal wave. It takes place in an alternate historical timeline around the mid-1800s.

Aug 31, 2011 · After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in …

Drawn by the smoke of Mau and Daphne's sheltering fire, other refugees slowly arrive: children without parents, mothers without babies, husbands without wives—all of them hungry and all of them frightened.