ISBN: 9798263636708 - the tuesday was a marmot: short stories (9 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if everyday life is not only absurd, but also feels like every day is a marmot? Welcome to a world in which the boundaries of normality are renegotiated on a daily basis. What do you do when your garden gnome cries relentlessly and all attempts to repair it fail? Or when your digital stylus goes on strike and demands better grammar and literary rewards? In this collection of humorous and satirical short stories, the world comes apart at the seams in a wonderfully absurd way. Join us in tranquil places such as Obertannbach or Gummelbach, whose idyllic facades crumble to reveal the surreal theater of modern life.Experience how.the kidnapping of a garden gnome becomes a state affair, while teenagers fill a cesspool wagon with pink glitter to make a viral statementa retired professor inexplicably starts producing buttons, which rocks his academic worldan artificial intelligence designed to optimize village life instead announces the inhabitants' most intimate secrets over loudspeakersa tender love story between two socks comes to a tragic end in the brutal chaos of a washing cycle.With sharp wit, philosophical depth and a pinch of melancholy, this collection dissects our desperate attempts to put the world in order and our glorious failure to do so. These are stories about the struggle of the individual against entropy, about the poetry in the banal and the realization that a workable compromise with madness is perhaps the most sensible thing we can aspire to. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if everyday life is not only absurd, but also feels like every day is a marmot? Welcome to a world in which the boundaries of normality are renegotiated on a daily basis. What do you do when your garden gnome cries relentlessly and all attempts to repair it fail? Or when your digital stylus goes on strike and demands better grammar and literary rewards? In this collection of humorous and satirical short stories, the world comes apart at the seams in a wonderfully absurd way. Join us in tranquil places such as Obertannbach or Gummelbach, whose idyllic facades crumble to reveal the surreal theater of modern life.Experience how.the kidnapping of a garden gnome becomes a state affair, while teenagers fill a cesspool wagon with pink glitter to make a viral statementa retired professor inexplicably starts producing buttons, which rocks his academic worldan artificial intelligence designed to optimize village life instead announces the inhabitants' most intimate secrets over loudspeakersa tender love story between two socks comes to a tragic end in the brutal chaos of a washing cycle.With sharp wit, philosophical depth and a pinch of melancholy, this collection dissects our desperate attempts to put the world in order and our glorious failure to do so. These are stories about the struggle of the individual against entropy, about the poetry in the banal and the realization that a workable compromise with madness is perhaps the most sensible thing we can aspire to. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…