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Pygmy
Chuck Palahniuk
- Description:
'Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival
mid-western American airport greater _______ area. Flight ____. Date
______. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name. Operation
Havoc. Fellow operatives already pass immigrant control, through secure
doors and to embrace own other host family people. Operative Tibor,
agent 23; operative Magda, agent 36; operative Ling, agent 19. All
violate United States secure port of entry having success. Each now
embedded among middle-income corrupt American family, all other homes,
other schools, and neighbours of same city. By not after next today,
strategy of web of operatives to be established'. Agent Number 67,
nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States
from his totalitarian homeland (a mash-up of North Korea, Cuba,
Communist-era China, and Nazi-era Germany), as an 'exchange student'
into the welcoming arms of his Simpsons-spinoff Midwestern host family.
Host cow father (he works in the biological weapons complex outside of
town), chicken neck mother, pig dog brother, and the disconcertingly
self-possessed cat sister introduce Pygmy into the rituals of
postmodern American life, which he views with utter contempt. Along
with his fellow operatives, all indoctrinated into the mindset of the
totalitarian state, he is planning something big, something truly,
truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat, dumb
inhabitants to their knees. "Pygmy" is a comedy. It is also Chuck
Palahniuk's finest, most ambitious novel since "Fight Club".
Hardcover
CZK520 |

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