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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 )
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 )
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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 . . .
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Identifying himself as part human part cockroach, Hage's Lebanese waiter isn't so much reaching for the sky as looking into the underground.
Almost invisible from society as a immigrant in Montreal,Canada with nothing and no one in his life he will not be ignored ,as he forces himself into peoples lives and homes ..quite literally!
Stark, shocking, surreal and pulling no punches this novel ,like its character, will not be forgotten easily. Recommended.
Almost invisible from society as a immigrant in Montreal,Canada with nothing and no one in his life he will not be ignored ,as he forces himself into peoples lives and homes ..quite literally!
Stark, shocking, surreal and pulling no punches this novel ,like its character, will not be forgotten easily. Recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I love this book. It is a feverish, disturbing and electrifying novel of the underworld. Thievery, indignity, yes. And also grief. Also: playfulness, wit and a love of language. Cockroach is one of the few contemporary novels that wants to make us angry, it wants us to question our convictions of what is right and what is just. And to think about how one, cut off from friendship and love, can survive in the darkness.
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This is the most refreshing book I read in years!! I loved it! It approaches exile in a completely different way. I imagine people don't like it because they prefer to think that someone else is to blame. This book shows us that no one in innocent! Brilliant!
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A scuttle through immigrant life
What to say about Rawi Hage's "Cockroach"? Certainly it is an interesting book, or perhaps an interesting two books. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Melmoth
A fabricated life as a cockroach?
Oh dear, I wasn't very keen on this one!
The story starts out with a man in conversation with his appointed psychiatrist after being released from a `special'... Read more
The story starts out with a man in conversation with his appointed psychiatrist after being released from a `special'... Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2010 by Karen Baxter
It Gives Us a Cockroach's View of the World
"Cockroach," is the second novel from Rawi Hage, a 1992 Lebanese immigrant who now lives in the frozen, francophone wastes of Montreal, Canada. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2009 by Stephanie DePue
Pretentiousness masquerading as an immigrant experience
To compare this to Kafka is like comparing the launch of a satellite rocket to a cheap firework! Many attempts of critics to find symbolism in this disjointed and immature... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2009 by hogsbackreader
Get Rentokill in
Gave up after 25 pages. Characters, dialogue and plot etc not remotely credible. Pretentious rubbish. It won awards in Quebec. Books are in limited supply out there apparently.
Published on 8 Sep 2009 by Strong Cheddar
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