Cockroach

Cockroach

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<p><strong>A bold, razor-sharp novel about a shadowy antihero navigating Montreal’s immigrant underworld.</strong></p><em></em>One of the most highly anticipated novels of the year, <em>Cockroach</em> is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage’s critically acclaimed first book, <em>De Niro’s Game</em>. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal’s restless immigrant community, where a self-described “thief” 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 naïve therapist. This sets the story in motion, leading us back to the narrator’s violent childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky émigré cafés 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. <br /> <br /> <em>Cockroach</em> 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.