{"product_id":"9780061132186","title":"One Big Damn Puzzler","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific, Managua—the only native who can read or write—is busily translating \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\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, \u003ci\u003eOne Big Damn Puzzler\u003c\/i\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061799043312,"sku":"9780061132186","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061132186_p0.jpg?v=1763767783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061132186","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}