Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Read and listen as much as you want
  • Over 1 million titles
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • 7 days free trial, then €9.99/month
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Subscribe Now
Cover for Pygmy
2 Ratings

2.5

Duration
7H 17min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc.

Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange students. Living with American families to blend in, they are planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this indoctrinated little killer in a cunning double-edged satire of American xenophobia.

“A cunning mix of advertising copy, leftist sloganeering and teen slang. … Pygmy is a dish for those who like their satire well done. And without apology.”—San Francisco Chronicle

© 2021 Recorded Books (Audiobook): 9781705041253

Release date

Audiobook: October 5, 2021

Tags

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. Doomed
    Doomed Chuck Palahniuk
  2. Adjustment Day
    Adjustment Day Chuck Palahniuk
  3. Tell-All
    Tell-All Chuck Palahniuk
  4. Lullaby
    Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk
  5. Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
    Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread Chuck Palahniuk
  6. Invisible Monsters Remix
    Invisible Monsters Remix Chuck Palahniuk
  7. Rant: An Oral History of Buster Casey
    Rant: An Oral History of Buster Casey Chuck Palahniuk
  8. Beautiful You
    Beautiful You Chuck Palahniuk
  9. Damned
    Damned Chuck Palahniuk
  10. Zombies
    Zombies Chuck Palahniuk
  11. Killer, Come Back To Me
    Killer, Come Back To Me Ray Bradbury
  12. Greatest Hits
    Greatest Hits Harlan Ellison
  13. Requiem for a Dream
    Requiem for a Dream Hubert Selby, Jr.
  14. Invisible Monsters
    Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk
  15. The Island of Dr. Moreau
    The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells
  16. Exterminator!: A Novel
    Exterminator!: A Novel William S. Burroughs
  17. Consumed: A Novel
    Consumed: A Novel David Cronenberg
  18. My Annihilation
    My Annihilation Fuminori Nakamura
  19. Galactic Pot-Healer
    Galactic Pot-Healer Philip K. Dick
  20. The Western Lands
    The Western Lands William S. Burroughs
  21. Zeroville: A Novel
    Zeroville: A Novel Steve Erickson
  22. Deathbird Stories
    Deathbird Stories Harlan Ellison
  23. The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
    The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western Richard Brautigan
  24. Ratner's Star
    Ratner's Star Don DeLillo
  25. The Monk
    The Monk Matthew Gregory Lewis
  26. The Hill of Dreams
    The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen
  27. Metropolis
    Metropolis Thea von Harbou
  28. The Great God Pan and Other Weird Tales
    The Great God Pan and Other Weird Tales Arthur Machen
  29. Tony and the Beetles
    Tony and the Beetles Philip K. Dick
  30. Survivor
    Survivor Chuck Palahniuk
  31. The Great God Pan
    The Great God Pan Arthur Machen
  32. Zofloya, or The Moor
    Zofloya, or The Moor Charlotte Dacre
  33. The Last Man
    The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  34. Gods Without Men
    Gods Without Men Hari Kunzru
  35. Masters of Atlantis
    Masters of Atlantis Charles Portis
  36. The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
    The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village Samuel R. Delany
  37. Snuff
    Snuff Chuck Palahniuk
  38. Vertigo
    Vertigo Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Boileau-Narcejac
  39. The Soft Machine: The Restored Text
    The Soft Machine: The Restored Text William S. Burroughs
  40. The Spider's House: A Novel
    The Spider's House: A Novel Paul Bowles
  41. A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers
    A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers Joyce Carol Oates
  42. Hauntology
    Hauntology Merlin Coverley
  43. Lady Joker, Volume 1
    Lady Joker, Volume 1 Kaoru Takamura, Marie Iida
  44. A Spectre, Haunting
    A Spectre, Haunting China Miéville
  45. The Visitors
    The Visitors Jessi Jezewska Stevens
  46. The Boy in the Earth
    The Boy in the Earth Fuminori Nakamura
  47. Cities of the Red Night
    Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs
  48. Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
    Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White Samuel R. Delany
  49. Untouched by Human Hands
    Untouched by Human Hands Robert Sheckley
  50. Epic: Stories of Survival From The World’s Highest Peaks
    Epic: Stories of Survival From The World’s Highest Peaks Alfred Lansing, David Roberts, Maurice Herzog, Robert Bates, Art Davidson, Charles Houston, Greg Child, Stephen Venables
  51. HIM
    HIM Geoff Ryman
  52. Love Aint Nothing But Sex Misspelled and Other Works
    Love Aint Nothing But Sex Misspelled and Other Works Harlan Ellison
  53. The King in Yellow
    The King in Yellow Robert W. Chambers
  54. Again, Dangerous Visions
    Again, Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison
  55. Dog Soldiers: A Novel
    Dog Soldiers: A Novel Robert Stone
  56. Dangerous Visions
    Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison
  57. Death Notice
    Death Notice Zhou Haohui
  58. One More for the Road: A New Story Collection
    One More for the Road: A New Story Collection Ray Bradbury
  59. This Crowded Earth
    This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch
  60. The willows
    The willows Algernon Blackwood
  61. From the Dust Returned
    From the Dust Returned Ray Bradbury
  62. The Dunsany Mythos: The Gods of Pegāna and Time and the Gods
    The Dunsany Mythos: The Gods of Pegāna and Time and the Gods Lord Dunsany
  63. The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
    The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 Richard Brautigan
  64. Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
    Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury Sam Weller, Mort Castle
  65. Last Winter, We Parted
    Last Winter, We Parted Fuminori Nakamura
  66. Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart: 25 Tales of Weird Romance
    Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart: 25 Tales of Weird Romance Caitlín R. Kiernan
  67. The Sorrows of Satan: or, The Strange Experience of one Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire
    The Sorrows of Satan: or, The Strange Experience of one Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire Marie Corelli
  68. The Zap Gun
    The Zap Gun Philip K. Dick
  69. A Luminous Republic
    A Luminous Republic Andrés Barba
  70. Ellison Wonderland
    Ellison Wonderland Harlan Ellison
  71. The Waves Extinguish the Wind
    The Waves Extinguish the Wind Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
  72. Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories
    Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories Charles Beaumont
  73. Farewell Summer: A Novel
    Farewell Summer: A Novel Ray Bradbury
  74. The Monk
    The Monk Matthew Lewis
  75. The Cosmic Puppets
    The Cosmic Puppets Philip K. Dick
  76. In the Land of Time
    In the Land of Time Lord Dunsany
  77. The Ammonite Violin & Others
    The Ammonite Violin & Others Caitlín R. Kiernan
  78. Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942
    Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 Richard Brautigan
  79. Cult X
    Cult X Fuminori Nakamura
  80. Speed the Plow
    Speed the Plow David Mamet
  81. A Good Fall: Stories
    A Good Fall: Stories Ha Jin

This is why you’ll love Storytel

  • Listen and read without limits

  • 800 000+ stories in 40 languages

  • Kids Mode (child-safe environment)

  • Cancel anytime

Unlimited stories, anytime

Unlimited

Listen and read as much as you want

9.99 € /month

  • 1 account

  • Unlimited Access

  • Offline Mode

  • Kids Mode

  • Cancel anytime

Try now