Cockroach - Couverture rigide

Hage, Rawi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241144442 ISBN 13 : 9780241144442

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 naïve therapist, our narrator tells her – and us – his heartrending and hallucinatory story. From his childhood in a war-torn Arab country, to his current life in the smoky émigré cafes of his new city, Cockroach traces our narrator's journey – his longing for a place in the world, his guilt over his sister's death at the hands of her husband, and his love for an Iranian woman, Shoreh, whose life is also a flight from the darkness of the past. As the stories in this remarkable book converge, our narrator must confront the events of the past in the form of another moral but potentially murderous dilemma in the present . . .

Revue de presse :

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 Tóibín )

One of the best contemporary novels I've read in a long time. A dark Dostoevskian fable, which lowers the reader into the sewers of immigrant Montreal to confront an underground world teeming with sex, crime and greedy insectoid life (Hari Kunzru )

Invigorating, managed with great brio and expertise. Further evidence of Hage’s large and unsettling talent (Guardian )

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0241144442
• ISBN 13: 9780241144442
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320