Ergebnis für "Graves" in Satire

When Brockleby Garden World launches its latest promotion — a mysterious new mulch dubbed “Zombie Compost” — no one expects the special offer to come with actual flesh-eating customers. Between pensioners armed with novelty flamingos, teenage shelf-stackers wielding leaf blowers, and a manager in denial about everything (including his haircut), things quickly go from compost to catastrophe. Now, a mismatched bunch of survivors must battle reanimated bargain-hunters, botanical chaos, and a soundtrack of 1950s swing music while trapped in the UK's most middle-class apocalypse.

When the head of a hovercycle club inexplicably calls in news of his own murder, Detective Simon Grave and his team are drawn in to Crab Cove's hovercycle underworld, a world of loyalty, betrayal, greed, and-yes-irony. As if murder weren't enough, the bombing of an election debate stage has the mayor pressing for a quick resolution to both crimes. It becomes increasingly clear that the crimes are connected, and that the solution will require the unraveling of an elaborate criminal scheme-and more.

Irónica, desencantada y llena de humor, La tumba relata la vida de un adolescente extraviado. Novela de iniciación que inauguró una nueva etapa de la literatura mexicana, en la cual los jóvenes, su lenguaje y su furia tienen un peso central y decisivo.