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Perennial
April 2007
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Featuring: William Hardt; Managua
512 pages
ISBN: 0061132187
EAN: 9780061132186
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Contemporary
On an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific,
Managua—the only native who can read or write—is busily
translating Hamlet
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.
Hardt 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. Profoundly moving
and achingly funny, One Big Damn Puzzler
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.
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