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Cockroach / Rawi Hage.
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 by hanging himself from a tree in a local park. Rescued against his will, the narrator is obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned but naïve 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 émigré cafés where everyone has a tale, and out into the frozen night-time streets of Montreal, where the thief survives on the edge, imagining himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, but willfully blind, citizens who surround him. Like De Niro's Game, Cockroach combines an uncompromising vision of humanity with razor-sharp portraits of society's outsiders, and a startling, poetic sensibility with bracing jolts of dark humour.
Record details
- ISBN: 0887842097
- ISBN: 9780887842092 :
- ISBN: 9780887848346
- Physical Description: 305 p. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Anansi, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Some copies: 2009. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Therapist and patient > Fiction. Immigrants > Canada > Fiction. Montréal (Québec) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Canadian fiction. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 18 of 18 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 18 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Library | Hage (Text) | 33294001622125 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
