Cockroach - Hardcover

Hage, Rawi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393075370 ISBN 13: 9780393075373

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2009

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A tale set during a month in a bitter Montreal winter finds a would-be thief rescued from a suicide attempt and forced into counseling with a naïve therapist to whom he relates his childhood in a war-torn country and his troubled present life in a series of smoky émigré cafes. By the award-winning author of DeNiro's Game.

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Praise for Cockroach: [A] dark and uncompromising vision. [Cockroach] offers a version of an émigré underground which is original, raw and brave. Colm Toibin A dark Dostoevskian fable, which lowers the reader into the sewers of immigrant Montreal to confront an underground world teeming with sex, crime and greedy insectoid life. Hari Kunzru Searing, affecting, misanthropic. Mohsin Hamid Most fiction writers are primarily either stylists or plotters, but Hage is clearly both. There s a slight jolting sensation as the narrative shifts gear from poetic to cinematic, with guns and knives and elaborately contrived set-ups replacing the earlier evocations of drains and flesh and wintry streets, but it s all managed with great brio and expertise. James Lasdun, The Guardian|CockroachCockroachThe Guardian

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393075370
• ISBN 13: 9780393075373
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 305
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