AustLit

'The Great Orange Ogre is try-oomph-ant in his Swamp City Tower. “The world is fool of trooble,” he confides to the man in the mirror. “If anybody can foox it, you can foox it!” Such praise! He loves the sound of it so much, he gives himself some more. “You’re trooly amoozing, the most amoozing, but you know that, don’t you?”

'Meanwhile, a naïve young girl, Inga, sets out on an adventure that will take her from her village in Cetza to the promised land of Asu, which lies on the other side of The GOO’s troomendously monstrous Wall. Can she escape Chooky, the Oomperor’s No. 1 foon? What else awaits our hero as she journeys deep into the Oompire’s heart of darkness?

'To open this book is to enter an absurdly surreal world populated not only by the Oomperor, his cronies and frenemies, but also intergalactic Gieks and the creatures they use to spy on the Oompire (a Mute-Tint Owl, a K9Cat, a Techsect). A scathing indictment of authoritarians everywhere, this darkly funny fake fairytale celebrates the significance of satire as irony made militant.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.