{"subjects": ["Lawyers, fiction", "Fiction, legal", "Pacific area, fiction", "Legal stories", "Obsessive-compulsive disorder", "Fiction", "Americans", "N\u00e9vroses obsessionnelles", "Romans, nouvelles"], "key": "/works/OL5533749W", "title": "One Big Damn Puzzler", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1319642A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [243337, 46120, 243348], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"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."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T10:27:10.332080"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-13T02:40:18.724809"}}