By Elke Heinemann
Elke Heinemanns preisgekrönte Satire auf Rollenklischees, Reproduktionsmythen und Massenmedien ist so boshaft wie komisch.
By Elke Heinemann
By Felix Wegener,Matthias Stolz
By Wayne Macauley
Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, Wayne Macauley's first novel, is a bitingly darkish tackle the good Australian dream. Fable-like, without problems readable and finally relocating, it exhibits us the intensity of Macauley's talent.
Bram and his fellow citizens are drawn by way of a dream: the promise of a highway resulting in a brand new suburb north of town. the homes are equipped, however the highway by no means comes. one after the other, the dreamers go away, till just a small, hardcore crew is left, together with Bram, One-eyed Michael, and Michael's self-possessed daughter Jodie. because the disused homes disintegrate round them they barricade themselves in. they've got a gun, a bulldozer, and a hellbent choice to stick until the top, no matter what, at any time when, that's. however the specialists produce other ideas.
Wayne Macauley is a Melbourne author. he's the writer of 3 hugely acclaimed novels, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, Caravan Story and The Cook.
'Wayne Macauley has the soul of a poet and his surreal novella is stunningly written...It is a satire of beautiful poise and confidence...If extra Australian literature was once of this calibre, we might be laughing.' Age
'[It used to be] like falling right into a bale of barbed twine at midnight and battling to get out until morning. The extra I struggled, the extra it acquired below my skin.' Bulletin
'A salutary fantasy concerning the horrors waiting for our disaffected sleek citizenry...lasting visible photographs and resonant symbolism.' Sydney Morning Herald
'Bewitching...ethereal...hallucinatory...In an period whilst many Australian novelists are taking part in it safe...Wayne Macauley is an formidable expertise worthy watching.' Wet Ink
'Tapping the hidden middle of a distinct Australia...this is unique Australian writing at its best.' Courier Mail
By Sebastian Niedlich
Mit Humor ist alles leichter – selbst dann, wenn guy in einem eating place landet, in dem möglicherweise das Jüngste Gericht serviert wird. Oder guy ausgerechnet mit dem leibhaftigen Tod befreundet ist. Oder guy ein klitzekleines bisschen daran schuld sein könnte, dass die Erde von galaktischen Angreifern in die Luft gesprengt wird. Klingt verrückt? Ist es auch! Und wir haben bisher noch nicht einmal das bösartige Einhorn erwähnt oder Gottes Meinung über den Geisteszustand der Menschen …
Endlich in einem booklet erhältlich – die gesammelten tales aus „Der Tod, der Hase, die Unsinkbare und ich“, „Ein Gott, drei Könige und zwei Milliarden Verrückte“ und „Das Ende der Welt ist auch nicht mehr das, used to be es mal war“.
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By Phyllis Kiehl
By José Maria Aguiar G.,MOISE JARA
By Con Chapman
By Robert Jansen
By Mabel Blair Steering
• Do well-connected businesses and universities appreciate justice and try to make the area higher for everyone?
• should still govt serve the inhabitants or make the most it to profit the powerful?
'Sustenance via hunger' is satire—but provided that Franz Kafka wrote satire. it truly is fiction—but provided that George Orwell wrote fiction. pass judgement on for yourself.
Gwendolyn is a pupil at Stambridge collage, and all she desires to do along with her lifestyles is aid humans. because the daughter of the fellow in charge of the world’s strongest charity, she is located completely for her needs.
Travel along with her via this wildly absurd tale as Gwendolyn meets many of the richest and so much selfless participants within the world—and their polar opposites.
Lift the veil at the self-dealings of your depended on elites because the lady grapples with the problem of starting to be up and discovering her rightful position during this rarefied world.
Struggle with Gwendolyn as she endures heartbreaking tragedy and commits herself to decrypting the rituals of the Gordian knot of deception woven by means of the mongers of morality inside of charity, executive, giant company, and the fashionable college.
This deeply satirical tackle the area of the privileged is a serious and thought-provoking booklet, filled with evidence and surreal extrapolations that shape a cautionary story for our time. destiny archaeologists of the communal psyche will learn this novel for its illumination of aggravating realities occluded from our belief by way of our personal sturdy nature.
If you don't snigger as you learn, money your mind. should you don't cry, fear approximately your humanity. wonder as you keep on with Gwendolyn's tale: certain, you care, yet how varied are you? And what's going to you do to alter this world?
By Shovon Chowdhury