Titoli in Satira

À la Ferme du Manoir, les animaux, épuisés par l’exploitation, se révoltent contre leur propriétaire. Ils rêvent d’une communauté libre et juste, fondée sur l’égalité. Mais à mesure que les cochons prennent le contrôle, les idéaux de la révolution se déforment, les règles...

By turns hilarious, unsettling, and unexpectedly tender, this final volume of the Tennis Player Confessions series that began at the Wimbledon tournament comes finally to Flushing Meadows, where the last match is played not with a racket, but with the truth. Written largely as a stage-script, the text shifts into meta-cinema, opening with a drone shot sweeping from the River Mersey to a hospice ward. As reality blurs into dreams, surveillance drones hum through the corridors and Andy is forced to confront what age means in a world that so easily discards its heroes.

“Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation.”—Guardian A blistering, brilliant novel from the Booker-shortlisted author, elegantly reflecting his Geoffrey Faber Memorial award-winning story collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity In The Quantity Theory of Morality...

From the author of Raised by Wolves comes a sharply satirical novel about class divisions, relationships and the dangers of mixing the two. Perfect for readers of Kiley Reid and Celeste Ng. Amy Chan is a queer, twenty-something artist, broke and living one bad shift away from financial disaster...

Set in 1945 between Hitler's death and Hiroshima, The Second Child is a satirical thriller about one young woman's plot to outsmart the supreme dictators in a world on fire. From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The First Friend. You can't choose your family, but you can choose...

Lord Andrew believes that he has won the vote for the club chairmanship: his time has come, his victory is total. But not complete. What's the next challenge for the tennis player who's just won Wimbledon? To win the Australian Open in Oz of course, so our hero bids farewell to his beloved tennis club and sets off on his journey to Melbourne (known in the 'real' world as HM Prison North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire where our hero is serving out his sentence for arson having set fire to the tennis club's racquets.)

Uma investigação envolvente, satírica e multifacetada da sociedade nigeriana contemporânea. Para além da originalidade estilística, marca indelével da produção ensaística e dramatúrgica de Wole Soyinka -- e que lhe valeu o prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1986 -- o romance oferece uma...

Some people will do anything to feel like they belong. American ex-pat twenty-three-year-old Skye Sullivan is Influence Manager for Amsterdam's hottest startup. CoHab is a co-living community founded by charismatic Silas Hayes, and earmarked as the Next Big Thing. Everyone wants to work there...

পদৱী যিমানেই উচ্চ নহওক, অজ্ঞানী লোকৰ বাবে সেই পদত থকা নথকা একেই কথা। জ্ঞান নথকাৰ বাবে ৰজা হৈও জৰদগৱৰ কি পৰিণতি হ'ল?...

মুৰ্খ এটা জোঁৱাই। শহুৰৰ ঘৰলৈ বুলি ওলাই দেখে, লগে লগে যায় নিজৰে ছাঁ। লগৰ পৰা নিজৰ ছাঁ আতৰাবলৈ গৈ হয় জোঁৱাইৰ কি...

খেতিয়ক ফৰিঙৰ পিঠা খোৱাৰ মন। পিছে পিঠা খোৱাৰ পিছতে ফৰিঙৰ নাম সৰৱজান হ'ল কেনেকৈ? দশোদিশে সৰৱজান নামেৰে জনাজাত হৈ...

৬০ৰ পৰা ৮০ৰ দশকলৈ লিখা তিনিখন ব্যঙ্গ ৰচনা-পুথিৰ একত্ৰ সংকলন, ৰম্যকথা। লক্ষ্মীনাথ বেজবৰুৱাৰ পৰা আৰম্ভ হোৱা...

Your dream home awaits - there's only two things in your way... The great Australian dream is slipping out of reach for Keira and her friends. No partner, no house, no kids. At 30-ahem, she is still languishing in a mould-filled share house, with an unexplained and ever-growing hole in the...

"Narrator Natalie Naudus’ Natalie embarks on this contentious path with almost cool deliberation...[her] characterizations confront Natalie at every turn..." — Booklist on Fallow (Starred Review) Slyly funny and disarmingly tender, Fallow is the story of a young woman who signs up to be the...

Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore. Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailing mother, and she’s desperate for money. She takes a job at her neighborhood bookstore and tries...

‘If I wasn’t dead, I would sue.’—Bram Stoker This is the origin story of the first real vampyre (not Dracula). The trouble with immortality is that eventually you get sick to death of it, and so to soothe his sickened soul, the Comte De’Ath decides to take a trip. From psychoanalysis...

An elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post–9/11 America. Told as a series of conversations, Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, India, and graduates in 2006 with a...

O mestre e Margarida é um romance revolucionário. É uma obra com um estilo absolutamente original, sobre a liberdade da escrita e a força do amor em tempos adversos. É também uma sátira devastadora da vida sob o regime soviético, da censura e da repressão. Um dos livros mais importantes...

"A wickedly witty and iridescent novel" (Time) from one of England's greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the...

“Filho de uma pisadela e de um beliscão” Leonardo, filho do espertalhão Leonardo-Pataca e de Maria da Hortaliça, é uma criança travessa e sem controle. Na contramão do que se espera para ele, Leonardo cresce sem rumo, mas se torna um sargento de milícias. Um clássico brasileiro que...