Titoli in Satira

Una breve parodia omaggio a Marco Malvaldi e al mondo delle sue narrazioni.

After pacifying the old Earth underground military base and defeating the Sleem, Tyson Dawes and Silken Sands are flush with new items and morties. But the Dearth Conglomerate has been circling over them in Arizona, and they want his land. Which wouldn't be such a problem if the boss weren't such an incompetent and spoiled child.

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world...or you can join the service. With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth.

Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean - cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical - might be in love with Lauren, but he’s not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul. Paul, as shrewd as he is passionate, is Lauren’s ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle. From the author of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis' The Rules of Attraction is a breathtaking tale of sex, expectation, desire and frustration.  

Chef-d’œuvre du grand écrivain et philosophe Voltaire, Candide, ou l'Optimisme, publié en 1759, est un conte qui suit les aventures de Candide, un jeune homme naïf, élevé dans une vision du monde optimiste. Ce principe de l'optimisme, enseigné par son mentor Pangloss, est sans cesse mis à l'épreuve dans une série de catastrophes et de malheurs : guerres, tremblements de terre, naufrages, et trahisons, dont la guerre de Sept Ans et le séisme de 1755 à Lisbonne.

No vuelve con un detective chiflado, sino con nueve. No vuelve con un caso, sino con tres.Vuelve el mejor Eduardo Mendoza. Barcelona, primavera de 2022. Los miembros de una organización gubernamental secreta se enfrentan a la peligrosísima investigación de tres casos que tal vez estén...

Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.

Carretera no siempre fue este showman eminente. Antes de convertirse en subastador ejerció como vigilante en una fábrica de jugos durante muchos años, hasta que el ataque de pánico de una compañera de trabajo cambió su vida de manera irremediable. En el tránsito hacia su destino Carretera...

After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping’s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a microchip that will be implanted into the brain of every citizen to replace all painful recollections with a collective dream of national supremacy, his sanity begins to unravel.  

Born in Dickens, Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's memoir will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed, he discovers there never was a memoir. Fuelled by despair, he sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.

Un paziente si reca da un medico di sua fiducia il quale consiglia una dieta atipica, non rientrante negli schemi canonici della dietologia moderna.

Era de suponer que las autoras June Hayward y Athena Liu iban a alcanzar juntas el estrellato: ambas se graduaron a la vez en Yale y publicaron su primer libro el mismo año. Pero, pasado el tiempo, Athena ha triunfado en varios géneros literarios y June no ha conocido aún las mieles del éxito. Así que cuando June es testigo de la muerte de Athena en un horrible accidente, actúa de forma impulsiva: roba la obra maestra que Athena acababa de terminar, una novela sobre las contribuciones de los trabajadores chinos tanto en Gran Bretaña como en Francia durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Prendete un camorrista sfigato e imbranato. Uno di quelli che più disgraziati non si può. Inseritelo in un contesto familiare molto allargato e variopinto: una moglie procace e autoritaria, una figlia ribelle e coraggiosa, un figlio che ama solo i cibi ipercalorici, un suocero guascone, una suocera stizzosa, una vedova d'animo nobile, una nerboruta cameriera ucraina, una coppia di iguane meditans e un coniglietto nano. Sistemate tutti questi personaggi in una palazzina napoletana del rione Sanità. Quello dove è nato il principe della risata Totò, per intenderci.

This funny, down-to-earth parody of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up hands listeners the most useful tools for keeping crap clean and organized without all the pressure.

¿Quién es Belaundia Fu? Es la mejor amiga de Marta a los siete años, la amiga invisible que se queda con ella cuando las cosas no salen bien y ni siquiera la abuela es capaz de consolarla. Belaundia Fu es la voz sensata, ideal e infalible que, en la adolescencia de Marta, le dice las verdades...

Now the Congress of Animals is in control, unforgiving, and debating the fate of the planet’s most reviled species. The popular ruling: Exterminate humankind without exception. But a curious mare, coming of age, is making a case for a seemingly gentle person she longs to save - a wish for mercy that could once again unbalance the new and righteous nature of the world.

It was just supposed to be a quick trip to the pet store for some cat food, but the universe had other plans for Florence Valentine. Good for nothing kids and some annoying store employees were giving her a hard time, and then things got worse when she was killed by a delivery truck. Instead of angels, pearly gates, and eternal rewards, a voice in her head keeps telling her that she’s become a dungeon core, whatever that is.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this classic tale for modern times, beloved storyteller John Grisham offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition. The inspiration for the film Christmas with the Kranks, starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis...

"Wir alle sind, was wir gelesen." (Golo Mann). Ich halte dieses Diktum Golo Manns für wahr. Insbesondere die Lektüre in empfindsamen Phasen unseres Lebens, zu denen die Jugend sicher zweifellos gehört, prägt uns alle. Sie prägt uns in unserer Art zu denken, die Welt wahrzunehmen und vielleicht sogar, wie wir fühlen. Tucholskys Texten begegnete ich erstmals bewusst mit ca. 14 Jahren, nachdem mir sein Name im Wesentlichen als der Autor des auffälligen Liederbuches, das bei meinen Eltern im Regal lag, bekannt war.

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot. The 'Yankee' vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks" and embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot with 19th c. industrial inventions like electricity and gunfire. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose!