{"product_id":"yakada-yaka-book-muller-carl-9780140240641","title":"Yakada Yaka","description":"Yakada   Yaka is the second part of the Burgher trilogy that began with The Jam Fruit   Tree When the conquering British roll out the first railway steam-driven   locomotive in Sri Lanka, it causes quite a stir. The smoke-spewing,   banshee-wailing, fearsome black thing hisses like a thousand cobras... and   the villagers declare that this Thing is an Iron Demon-a yakada yaka. The   Burghers who drive these Iron Demons have a penchant for challenging   authority and courting trouble, sometimes just to liven things up in the   railway outposts... and so it is that Sonnaboy and Meerwald chase a large   group of villagers all across Anuradhapura, mother-naked but not much   bothered by it, Ben Godlieb conjures up a corpse in his cowcatcher, Dickie   Byrd single-handedly demolishes a Pentecostal Mission and is hailed as the   messiah of the Railway fraternity, and Basil Van der Smaght filches a human   heart and feeds it to the Nawalapitiya railway staff ...and to cap it all,   Sonnaboy takes French Leave to act in The Bridge on the River Kwai! '(Muller)   tells his tale with a gentle humour often bordering on tenderness, but   couched in the vigorous rugged localese. Almost immediately we find ourselves   empathizing with Muller's roistering band that sins and prays with equal   zest.' -Business Standard '... The Burghers ...believed in living life to the   hilt. Every situation occasioned wild revels, and there was nothing that   could not be solved through a brawl.' -India Today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49509848613137,"sku":"GOR002479978","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50933037236497,"sku":"GOR007226760","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51755804918033,"sku":"GOR004508950","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140240640.jpg?v=1751389312","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/yakada-yaka-book-muller-carl-9780140240641","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}