Satire books from Brazil
Recommended satire books (5)
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If you are into satire here are some satire books from Brazil for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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O mundo é bárbaro by Luis Fernando Verissimo PT
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Passados 508 anos, o ser-humano parece inviável, segue ateando fogo à Terra e nada indica que um superbombeiro se aproxima para a apagar o incêndio. Do meio ambiente à política, passando pela economia e pelo comportamento bárbaro das pessoas no dia-a-dia, sobram argumentos para os pessimistas. Mas nem tudo está perdido. O planeta é habitado pelo humor de Luis Fernando Verisimo e sua salvação está nas crônicas reunidas no livro O Mundo é Bárbaro. Escolhidas num universo de 500 textos, entre os melhores que o autor escreveu nos últimos oito anos, elas discutem a ascensão chinesa, a guerra contra... continue
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Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance! "In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing, but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor—next in line for the presidency—inexplicably disappears from sight. Gustavo Va... continue
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Terminal 3 by Illimani Ferreira EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Imagine the future. Not the flossy-glossy one that feels like riding a Tesla driven by a coked out Ayn Rand. No. Imagine instead... a future somewhere between a white cishet libertarian's wet dream with sexbots and a nightmare Greta Thunberg had during a nap after eating expired tofu chimichangas. Can you picture that? No? Try this: Los Angeles has become a main hub of the Galactic Confederation - a relay outpost for extra terrestrial travelers coming from and going to the Norma and Scotus-Centaurus arms of the Milky Way, also known as "The Effed Up Side of the Galaxy." After his mom disappear... continue
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New Yorker A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas A Penguin Classic The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (translated also... continue
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The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories by Machado de Assis EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.