Cockroach - by Rawi Hage (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Hage's look at the underbelly of organized religion and immigrant life in Canada is unflinching and grim. . . . "Cockroach's" finely wrought scenes build in tension toward a conclusion that's fitting and yet unpredictable.--Kevin Chong.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In 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. <em>Cockroach</em> is a carnivalesque, philosophical novel that weaves dark humor with an accusatory, satirical voice, spawning from the subsurface to challenge humanity and its downfall.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Praise 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<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>There is something exhilarating about [<em>Cockroach</em>'s] relentlessness. . . . The narrator is ambiguous, untrustworthy, sly, and filled with a despair both nasty and noisy; but he is also deeply wounded, oddly lovable, his voice both moving and manipulative.--Colm Tóibín "New York Review of Books"<br>
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