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"On a remote South Pacific island paradise the struggles of an elderly tribesman to translate Shakespeare's Hamlet 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 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."--Book jacket.
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One Big Damn Puzzler (P.S.)
March 27, 2007, Harper Perennial
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in English
0061132187 9780061132186
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One Big Damn Puzzler
July 25, 2006, Black Swan
Paperback
in English
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0552999806 9780552999809
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