Cockroach
  • Published: 30 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141040813
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $42.99

Cockroach

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4 Jun 2015
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30 Aug 2010
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'A tale of murder, intrigue and sex from the exuberantly talented Hage' Daily Telegraph

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 . . .
  • Published: 30 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141040813
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $42.99
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About the author

Rawi Hage

Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He emigrated to Canada in 1992 and now lives in Montreal. His first novel, De Niro's Game, won the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the best English-language book published anywhere in the world in a given year, and has either won or been shortlisted for seven other major awards and prizes.

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Praise for Cockroach

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
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