Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Satire

This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is...

Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been surpassed. Even today, this reimagining of fourteen timeless tales--from "Puss in Boots" to "Little Red Riding Hood"--is still fresh and bold, giving readers a world steeped not in once upon a time, but in the here and now.

Longtime favorites in this playfully subversive collection are retold for modern times and mature sensibilities. In "Jack the Giant Killer," Jack becomes a trickster...

A debut novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle

Idiopathy (?d?'?p i): a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown.

Idiopathy is a novel that is as unexpected as its title, in which Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan three characters you won't forget in a hurry unsuccessfully try to figure out how they feel about one another and how they might best live their lives in a world gone mad. Featuring a mysterious cattle epidemic, a humiliating stint in rehab, an unwanted pregnancy, a mom turned media...

To casual tourists, armchair travellers, and naive investors, the undercurrents of many foreign countries are invisible. And so it was in the case of this African mining venture.

Corrupt leaders, crooked law officers, guerrillas, unscrupulous financiers, deception, and farce all lie as far below the surface as the mine's ore. And even there lie surprises.

An unscrupulous overseas financier runs into technical problems with the development of a secluded mine. To solve them he hires a brilliant engineer with a questionable past. One surprise after another lead to the engineer's...