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Cockroach

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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  • "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 nav̐e 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 m̌igr ̌cafš 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."
  • ""Montr eal en hiver. Les rues sont d esertes, livr ees a un froid mordant. Dans un parc, un homme se pend a une branche pour tenter de mettre un terme a sa vie d'insecte. Il echoue. On l'oblige a entreprendre une th erapie avec une psychologue pleine de bonnes intentions a qui il livre malgr e lui une confession de voleur solitaire, r ev elant peu a peu son enfance, ses r eves, l'espoir et la haine qui l'habitent, et comment sa soeur le transforma en cafard... Ce r ecit sans concessions, port e par un humour noir et un puissant souffle lyrique, confirme que l'auteur de Parfum de poussi ere (Prix des libraires du Qu ebec, prix IMPAC Dublin) figure parmi les plus grands ecrivains de sa g en eration. Le cafard instille dans l'esprit du lecteur son doux venin, alt ere sa perception de l' ame humaine et illumine les t en ebres de notre epoque d'une bien etrange lumi ere."--Couverture."
  • "During a bitterly cold winter in a snowy northern city, a self- confessed thief has just tried to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the local park. Rescued against his will and obliged to attend sessions with a well-meaning but naive therapist, our narrator tells her - and us - his heartrending and hallucinatory story."
  • "A tale set during a month in a bitter Montreal winter finds a would-be thief rescued from a suicide attempt and forced into counseling with a naïve therapist to whom he relates his childhood in a war-torn country and his troubled present life in a series of smoky émigré cafes."
  • "During a bitterly cold winter in a snowy northern city, a self-confessed thief has just tried to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the local park. Rescued against his will and obliged to attend sessions with a well-meaning but naive therapist, our narrator tells her - and us - his heartrending and hallucinatory story."
  • "Immigré d'un pays oriental qui pourrait être le Liban, le narrateur survit à une tentative de suicide et entame une psychothérapie. Entre le récit de ses séances et de ses errances dans Montréal, l'histoire d'une âme déracinée et incapable d'échapper à un passé dévastateur. Fou amoureux de Shoreh, une Iranienne torturée par les mollahs, il vit d'aides sociales et de boulots d'appoint."
  • "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."@en
  • "The unnamed hero-- an impoverished immigrant living in Montréal-- is in therapy after an attempted suicide. There he deals with insect hallucinations, sexual fantasies, and buried guilt over the death of his sister."@en
  • "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."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Sagas"
  • "Pcychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Popular literature"

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  • "Le cafard"
  • "Il ladro del silenzio"@it
  • "Il ladro del silenzio"
  • "Kakerlake Roman"
  • "Cockroach"
  • "Cockroach"@en
  • "al-Ṣarṣār : riwāyah"
  • "Žohar"
  • "Kakerlake : Roman"
  • "al-Ṣurṣār : riwāya"
  • "Bubašvaba"
  • "Torakka"
  • "الصرصار : رواية"
  • "El ladrón de intimidades"@es

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