Titoli in Satira

A blistering rebuke of religious hypocrisy, Elmer Gantry is the story of a charismatic and manipulative social climber who rises to power within his church, despite his insincerity. Though he preaches against immorality and temptation, Reverend Dr Elmer Gantry can’t seem to give up his own vices, and he leaves a trail of broken people behind him in his pursuit of pleasure and power, betraying anybody and doing anything to get ahead.

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.

Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and is drawn into a four-billion year old mystery that must be...

When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He's there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude. But he hadn't counted on the other vacationers, an eccentric bunch, including a famous hypnotist, a physicist with a penchant for gymnastic feats, a sulky teenager of indeterminate gender, and the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. Moses.

Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his crimes, but he instead takes it upon himself to write a modernist literary tract. Later, as a lecturer at a chaotic, newly built university, Wang Er navigates the bureaucratic maze of 1980’s China, boldly writing about the Cultural Revolution’s impact on his life and those around him. Finally, alone and humbled, Wang Er must come to terms with the banality of his own existence. 

Falling in love was not in their wedding vows… Loren Cane is in a downward spiral. Since her fiancé left her, she’s been juggling multiple jobs, mounting bills, and a father who’s slipping away. The only thing she has left is the found family that anchors her. Namely, Bridger Adams...

Yambo, ovvero Enrico de' Conti Novelli da Bertinoro (1876-1943), autodefinitosi (nell'epigrafe della sua tomba, dettata da lui stesso) "amico dei ragazzi e della gente buona", è stato giornalista, illustratore, scrittore di fumetti e di libri per ragazzi. Personalità interessante della prima metà del Novecento, la sua produzione fantastica lo ha fatto inserire tra uno degli anticipatori della fantascienza (e, a proposito, le uova di pterodattilo sono state trovate davvero, in Cina, nel 2014!).

“A sharp-witted tragicomedy about money, morality, and a family teetering on the brink. A splendidly funny novel.” —Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street For readers of Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting and Jenny Jackson’s Pineapple Street, an irresistibly...

What happens when a window mannequin wakes up with the mind of a newborn and the wardrobe of a Parisian “rare bargain”? In this wry, whirlwind short story by L. Frank Baum, a mischievous Yellow Ryl breathes life into a department-store dummy, who marches into the city armed with a hat...

From two-time Leacock Medal winner and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a slim parable of a novel that imagines a world where literature rules—and one humble writer discovers that success can be the strangest fiction of all. What if novelists were the new rock stars? Malcolm Forde is a...

If there's even a smidgen of Scrooge in your psyche, just say, "Bah-Humbug!" and laugh at this satire of the treacly best seller, The Christmas Box. Among the variations on the theme are The Christmas Vox, in which a young man finds himself having phone sex with Ms. Santa Claus; The Christmas...

""The Award begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition, but it quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl’s addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller.""—Tom Perrotta, New York Times...

Now a Netflix film! Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident...

En esta ocasión, la improbable heroína tiene su origen en el barrio de Soweto, el tristemente célebre gueto de Johannesburgo. Corren los años setenta, en pleno auge del apartheid, cuando Nombeko Mayeki, condenada a una vida de infortunio y con altas probabilidades de que ésta acabe a una edad temprana ante la indiferencia de sus semejantes, encuentra un resquicio para escapar de su aciago futuro.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four generations of one family 'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and...

Die Demokratie muss weg. Und die Alternative steht schon bereit. Michela Murgias virtuose, hochaktuelle Satire verunsichert, provoziert und wirft die Frage auf: Wie faschistisch sind Sie? Die Demokratie ist mühsam, fehlerhaft und instabil. Entscheidungsprozesse sind langwierig, kompliziert und teuer, politische Parteien kaum zu unterscheiden. Zu viele Beteiligte müssen gefragt, möglichst alle Minderheiten einbezogen werden. Wäre da eine volksnahe Führung mit mehr Entscheidungsfreiheit nicht wirkungsvoller?

Veteran authors Everett and Kincaid present an uproarious send-up of one of America's most controversial American icons. "[A]n outrageously funny satire of race relations and racism, US history, contemporary sexual mores and behavior, academia, and the publishing industry . . . It could become a...

I "Navn ukendt" (1965), Finn Søeborgs mest gakkede roman, møder vi manden, der mirakuløst overlever et flystyrt. Da han vågner har han mistet sin hukommelse, og han hvirvles, nu identitetsløs, ind i en række absurde forviklinger, der involverer militæret, det hemmelige politi, kongen og...

Ein brennender Tesla in der mecklenburgischen Provinz markiert den Nullpunkt: Roger Ross, frisch gefeuert und ohne Gepäck, flieht in das Luxusresort »Eden« und erfindet sich radikal neu. Doch das Hotel ist keine Zuflucht, sondern eine prunkvolle Endstation für die Illusionen unserer Zeit...

Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. Twenty years of failure later, that unfortunately does not appear to...