Wooden Spoon Wars

Name: Wooden Spoon Wars
SKU: 9781068411434
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Witty, provocative, filthy, inspiring and utterly unclassifiable, Wooden Spoon Wars is an Odyssey for an age where truth is a lifestyle choice and identity is a battleground.

Recommended for connoisseurs of wicked humour in the sprit of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller.

Athens, 378 B.C. – Diogenes of Sinope, the original cynic, lives in a barrel and picks fights with Plato – until he is sold to a Nubian slaver.

Croydon, 2019 A.D. – Mikhail Krutoy, the classic case of Archilochus-Hesburger Syndrome, is threatened with deportation. Stranded in Newark Airport with his VR simulation of classical Athens, he discovers that his two possible fathers are frontrunners in the 2020 U.S. election.

Meanwhile, Russian troll-farm operative Nastya inflames the West’s culture wars—until a family secret ties her fate to Mikhail’s, setting the internet ablaze. An argument over a wooden spoon sparks a bloody conflict, leaving Diogenes and Mikhail to teach us a final lesson in peace, hope, humanity and wisdom.

SKU: 9781068411434 Categories: Fiction, Stories, Writing & Literature

Binding: Perfect Bound

Pages: 438Author: K. Minko

Description

A fusion of ancient Athens and modern culture wars, Wooden Spoon Wars is a sparky satire that skewers ideology, power, and the absurdities of identity politics. K. Minko weaves a tale where Diogenes, the barrel-dwelling Cynic, battles sophists, demagogues, and philosophers-for-hire in a city teetering between philosophy and absurdity. Meanwhile, in the present day, an exiled IT specialist wades through the swamp of identity, citizenship, and political ambition. With echoes of Catch-22, The Master and Margarita, and Vonnegut at his most humane, Minko delivers a novel as erudite as it is depraved, packed with wit, provocation, philosophical mischief and smut. Wooden Spoon Wars is not just a satire—it’s a battlefield of ideas where history, politics, and language collide.