Nation tells the story of Mau, a young member of the Nation, an island not even large enough to be credited on a world map, located in the South Pelagic Ocean. But this time around we are gifted the opportunity to see Pratchett’s attention to detail and love of his craft. It is right up there with Pratchett’s best Discworld novels like Night Watch and Making Money.
Written with Pratchett’s inimitable wit and humor, Nation is one of the best books I have read this year. That’s not to say you should disbelieve anything I say. I say this so that you will be able to temper my review with the knowledge that I might be a little biased. It is like saying that the ocean is marginally damp, or that George Bush might have made a mistake stepping into Iraq. To say that I am a Terry Pratchett fan is to really not grasp the picture.
However this time around, Pratchett has stepped off the Disc and into a parallel universe to our own, with honorable mentions to Einstein and Isaac Newton. Pratchett is best known for his Discworld series of books, which stretch across a monstrous 36 books (of which the majority does well to score below 7 out of 10). In what can really only be called a tour de force by an author who is arguably the greatest living English novelist, Terry Pratchett has pulled out all the stops for his latest book, Nation.
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