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Cockroach
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- ISBN: 9780887848506 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0887848508 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (305 p. : port.) - Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] : House of Anansi Press, 2008
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| Subject: | Immigrants -- Fiction Thieves -- Fiction Montréal (Québec) -- Fiction FICTION / General Immigrants Thieves Québec -- Montréal |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. |
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Summary:
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.
