Munmun by Jesse Andrews is possibly one of the strangest books I have ever read. The concept of the novel is fantastic, it shows how being rich doesn't automatically make you a better person than those who are poor and that money (or munmun) doesn't always bring happiness. Sadly the execution of the idea is quite disappointing.
The narrative voice, Warner, is illiterate due to being littlepoor and unable to attend school, so the story is written phonetically a lot of the time, with many of the words ran together into one. This made it incredibly difficult to read as I had to keep stopping to sound out words. Once I got midway into the story I got used to it but it still threw me on occasion.
Overall I enjoyed Munmun as it was a very interesting story, but I definitely deducted points for the strange spelling and grammar.
Many thanks to Allen & Unwin UK for my free copy of Munmun.
The narrative voice, Warner, is illiterate due to being littlepoor and unable to attend school, so the story is written phonetically a lot of the time, with many of the words ran together into one. This made it incredibly difficult to read as I had to keep stopping to sound out words. Once I got midway into the story I got used to it but it still threw me on occasion.
Overall I enjoyed Munmun as it was a very interesting story, but I definitely deducted points for the strange spelling and grammar.
Many thanks to Allen & Unwin UK for my free copy of Munmun.