{"product_id":"one-big-damn-puzzler-paperback","title":"One Big Damn Puzzler - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific, Managua--the only native who can read or write--is busily translating \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e into pidgin English when a plane interrupts his noble work. Strapping on his false leg, he makes his way to the landing strip to greet the unexpected arrival: William Hardt, a young American lawyer driven by his misguided ambition to win reparations for the island's inhabitants. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardt is not the first white outsider to pay a visit; the British came earlier, bringing their language, the small pigs that run wild in the jungle, and Shakespeare . . . and the Americans followed with guns, land mines, and Coca-Cola. But in this place of riotously logical ritual, Hardt's determined quest to do good could make him the most devastating visitor of all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfoundly moving and achingly funny, \u003cem\u003eOne Big Damn Puzzler\u003c\/em\u003e brilliantly explores the collision of the twenty-first century with unsullied pagan reality--and establishes John Harding as one of the most imaginative contemporary chroniclers of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific, Managua--the only native who can read or write--is busily translating \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e into pidgin English when a plane interrupts his noble work. Strapping on his false leg, he makes his way to the landing strip to greet the unexpected arrival: William Hardt, a young American lawyer driven by his misguided ambition to win reparations for the island's inhabitants. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardt is not the first white outsider to pay a visit; the British came earlier, bringing their language, the small pigs that run wild in the jungle, and Shakespeare . . . and the Americans followed with guns, land mines, and Coca-Cola. But in this place of riotously logical ritual, Hardt's determined quest to do good could make him the most devastating visitor of all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfoundly moving and achingly funny, \u003cem\u003eOne Big Damn Puzzler\u003c\/em\u003e brilliantly explores the collision of the twenty-first century with unsullied pagan reality--and establishes John Harding as one of the most imaginative contemporary chroniclers of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369161392351,"sku":"9780061132186","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/H9DwwyFFSG9780061132186.webp?v=1789139264","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/one-big-damn-puzzler-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}