Cockroach [electronic resource] / Rawi Hage.
Cockroach is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage's bestselling and critically acclaimed first book, De Niro's Game. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant community, where a self-described thief has just tried but failed to commit suicide. Rescued against his will, the narrator is obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned but naive therapist. This sets the story in motion, leading us back to the narrator's violent childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky emigre cafes where every.
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- ISBN: 9780887848506 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0887848508 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (305 p. : port.)
- Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] : House of Anansi Press, 2008
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