One Big Damn Puzzler - Couverture rigide

Harding, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385609019 ISBN 13 : 9780385609012

Editeur : Doubleday, 2005

Synopsis

Hitting the funny bone and touching the heart, the glorious new novel by the author of What We Did On Our Holiday...

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Harding was born in the Isle of Ely in 1951. After local village and grammar schools, he read English at Oxford. He worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor before becoming a freelance writer. His first novel, the bestselling What We Did On Our Holiday was shortlisted for the WHSmith New Talent Award. His second was the much-acclaimed While the Sun Shines. He lives in Richmond upon Thames with his wife and two sons.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

IS BE OR IS BE NOT, IS BE ONE BIG DAMN PUZZLER

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 wonderfully original novel, inviting us into a sublimely imagined world teeming with life, 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.

Life-affirming, achingly funny and profoundly moving, One Big Damn Puzzler confirms John Harding as one of contemporary fiction's most entertaining and observant chroniclers of the human condition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385609019
• ISBN 13: 9780385609012
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible