{"product_id":"the-little-boy-from-water-ric-couchman-9798218378387","title":"The Little Boy From Water Street","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe greatest paradox and most impressive achievement of Ric Couchman's novel is that the little boy, Hans Kindermann, shows himself to be more man than \"the man\" in the story, and he does so without compromising his own innocence. The book pulls back the curtains on Hans's moments of existence, providing vignettes that reveal a blurred but strikingly poignant portrait of the little boy from Water Street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Kindermann is thrust suddenly into a violent, confusing, barely recognizable, yet fascinating world-a world which extends no farther than the perimeter of a small enclave of a tiny village in an obscure English-speaking South American country. Little Hans must make sense of his sudden insertion into this world, as well as make sense of the contradictions he encounters therein.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooming ominously in the backdrop of this seemingly inscrutable little landscape is \"the man\" whose unbridled brutality Hans witnesses and directly experiences, culminating in his having to make a rather tough decision. In the face of this inevitable confrontation, we ask with anxious curiosity: Does the little boy dare step outside the Universal? Does he \"dare disturb the universe?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the surface, we have here a psychological novel of white knuckled and steadily mounting intrigue, but on a more profound level, it presents a searching illumination of the human condition and offers to the attentive reader a heightened glimpse into the realization of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ric Couchman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218378387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e WAN WAN Dutty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.37d","brand":"Ric Couchman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47135499583743,"sku":"9798218378387","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9207ee1b-3aa6-497c-a95a-cad29b049b76.jpg?v=1755010338","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-little-boy-from-water-ric-couchman-9798218378387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}