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Jane Wenham-Jones, the British master of humor and irony, in the novel How to Raise a Roof leads us through the hilarious and painful adventures of Cari, a woman on the verge of financial and emotional ruin.
Ignored and harassed by the authorities, surviving on the help of relatives and publishing children's rhymes, this ingenious marginal left behind a veritable treasure trove of strange stories and twisted thoughts in his notes and notebooks.
Melanie Gideon, an American writer known for her humorous novels about family dynamics, dissects the monotony of marriage in the age of social media in The Marriage Trap (2012).
The Golden Calf (1931) is a brilliant satirical picaresque adventure, a sequel to the legendary 12 Chairs, where the great schemer Ostap Bender returns in full glory – charming, cynical, irredeemably cunning and always one step ahead of everyone else.
The novel Beautiful Children depicts the world of adolescent rebels in a "re-education" colony - a prison disguised as a school. Written in the spirit of the Prague Spring, the work criticizes the communist system through a dynamic, cinematic narrative.
These stories will make us laugh, but also imperceptibly take us to the other, dark side...