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Cockroach

Rawi Hage author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:3rd Jun '10

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Our unnamed narrator has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land.

But he brings with him secrets - of a family tragedy that he failed to prevent and a childhood overshadowed by war. And as he wanders snowy streets, falling in love with fellow exile Shoreh, he realizes that to find a place in this alien world it is necessary to become someone else. Someone he never dared to be in his past life . . .

Gripping. A humane and compassionate storyteller * New Statesman *
Beautifully paced, filled with picaresque wit and misadventure, anchored by a dark and uncompromising vision . . . Rawi Hage has joined the great pantheon of Canadian writers whose work we read with admiration and excitement -- Colm Toíbín
Compelling, intriguing, deceptive * Financial Times *
Further evidence of Hage's large and unsettling talent * Guardian *

  • Winner of Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2008 (UK)
  • Short-listed for The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2008
  • Short-listed for Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize 2008

ISBN: 9780141040813

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm

Weight: 500g

320 pages