Satire genre books (96)
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Le lièvre de Vatanen by Arto Paasilinna FR
FinlandDescription:
Roman-culte dans les pays nordiques, avec le journaliste ...
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Le passe-muraille by Marcel Aymé FR
FranceDescription:
Un essai Etude approfondie d'un grand texte classique ou contemporain par un spécialiste de l'œuvre : approche critique originale des multiples facettes du texte dans une présentation claire et rigoureuse. Un dossier Bibliographie, chronologie, variantes, témoignages, extraits de presse. Eclaircissements historiques et contextuels, commentaires critiques récents. Un ouvrage efficace, élégant. Une nouvelle manière de lire.
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Less: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (New York Times Book Review). WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017 A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award and the California Book Award "I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, Washington Post "Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, ... continue
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Little Indiscretions by Carmen Posadas EN
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is part ingeniously entertaining whodunit and part sparkling social satire. Business is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he’s invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol. When Nestor is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer with a notebook in his hand, the party guests gathered that evening are the natural suspects. But who could have it in for a harmless cook? The answer, it turns out, is just about everyone who happens to be staying in the hou... continue
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Living Things by Munir Hachemi EN
SpainDescription:
Nella stanza in fondo alla casa, una donna anziana parla e un uomo giovane ascolta. Con tre elementi in apparenza tanto semplici, Jorge Galán scrive una storia universale, antica come l'Umanità, e insieme moderna come il futuro. La memoria, il pozzo inesauribile che si alimenta allo stesso tempo dell'esperienza di chi ha vissuto molto e della necessità di sapere da parte di chi sta iniziando a vivere, dispiega qui, ancora una volta, l'irresistibile capacità di seduzione che attrae allo stesso tempo il nipote della protagonista e il lettore che avanza, aggrappato alla sua mano, attraverso un ro... continue
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Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes EN
GermanyDescription:
THE SMASH-HIT HITLER SATIRE - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD "A brilliant book" RUSSELL KANE "Brilliant and hilarious" KEN FOLLETT "An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page" Caroline Jowett, Daily Express "There's no question that the novel has hit upon the key paradox of our modern obsession with Hitler" Philip Olterman, Observer Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and r... continue
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Manalive by G. K. Chesterton EN
EnglandDescription:
Light-hearted work introduces Innocent Smith, a bubbly, eccentric gentleman of questionable character, into the lives of a group of young disillusioned people -- and the result is inspired, high-spirited nonsense.
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Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award-winning United States. With a new introduction by Camille Paglia "I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western... continue
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen EN
Description:
Austen's witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy a... continue
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Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal EN
SingaporeDescription:
We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets. But now you know one of ours...