One Big Damn Puzzler

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IS BE OR IS BE NOT, IS BE ONE BIG DAMN PUZZLER
On a remote South Pacific island paradise the struggles of an elderly tribesman to translate Shakespeare's Ham/et into the local pidgin English are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a young American lawyer with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same . . .
What follows is an ambitious and joyfully original novel, inviting us into a sublimely imagined world teeming with life and ideas, and full of wonders - the islanders with their strange notions about sex, their madly logical rituals and their tortured but addictive version of the English language, a curiously large number of people with artificial legs, and the dwarf pigs they hunt (when they can be bothered). It's a place where magic is everywhere, where you can buy a potion to make someone fall in love with you (all it costs is a few yams) and visit the kassa house and discover that the dead may not be so dead after all. It's a... Tovább

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IS BE OR IS BE NOT, IS BE ONE BIG DAMN PUZZLER
On a remote South Pacific island paradise the struggles of an elderly tribesman to translate Shakespeare's Ham/et into the local pidgin English are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a young American lawyer with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same . . .
What follows is an ambitious and joyfully original novel, inviting us into a sublimely imagined world teeming with life and ideas, and full of wonders - the islanders with their strange notions about sex, their madly logical rituals and their tortured but addictive version of the English language, a curiously large number of people with artificial legs, and the dwarf pigs they hunt (when they can be bothered). It's a place where magic is everywhere, where you can buy a potion to make someone fall in love with you (all it costs is a few yams) and visit the kassa house and discover that the dead may not be so dead after all. It's a world so different it questions our own values and ideas about love, life and even death.
Life-affirming, achingly funny and profoundly moving. One Big Damn Puzz/er confirms John Harding as one of contemporary fiction's most entertaining and observant chroniclers of the human condition.
'Enormously enjoyable John Harding tackles this novel's huge, tragic subject with a blissfully skewed lightness of touch.'
Deborah Moggach, author of Tulip Fever

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ISBN 0-385-60988-4
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