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Cockroach

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Cockroach
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A bold, razor-sharp novel about a shadowy antihero navigating Montrealâ€™s immigrant underworld.
One of the most highly anticipated novels of the year, Cockroach is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hageâ€™s critically acclaimed first book, De Niroâ€™s Game. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montrealâ€™s restless immigrant community, where a self-described â€œthiefâ€ has just tried but failed to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree in a local park. Rescued against his will, the narrator is obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned but naÃ¯ve therapist. This sets the story in motion, leading us back to the narratorâ€™s violent childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky Ã©migrÃ© cafÃ©s where everyone has a tale, and out into the frozen nighttime streets of Montreal, where the thief survives on the edge, imagining himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, but willfully blind, citizens who surround him.

Cockroach combines an uncompromising vision of humanity with razor-sharp portraits of society's outsiders, and a startling, poetic sensibility with bracing jolts of dark humor.
Country USA
Brand Brand: House of Anansi Pr
Manufacturer Anansi
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780887842092
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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