The Cockroach

The Cockroach

<b>A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-era take on Kafka's <i>Metamorphosis</i>, centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. An Anchor Original.</b><br /><br /><i>That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature.</i><br /><br />Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. <br /><br />In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.