{"product_id":"cockroach-paperback","title":"Cockroach - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRawi Hage\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Montreal's restless immigrant community, our unnamed narrator is living in despair. Forced to visit a therapist after a suicide attempt, he brings us back to his 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 he imagines himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, but willfully blind, citizens who surround him. \u003cem\u003eCockroach\u003c\/em\u003e is a carnivalesque, philosophical novel that weaves dark humor with an accusatory, satirical voice, spawning from the subsurface to challenge humanity and its downfall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Cockroach: \"[A] dark and uncompromising vision. [Cockroach] offers a version of an emigre 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724256874559,"sku":"9780393337877","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/00803d9e60472cec66af980d6dc67bf1.webp?v=1765102047","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/cockroach-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}