Cockroach - Tapa dura

Hage, Rawi

 
9780393075373: Cockroach
Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 0393075370 ISBN 13: 9780393075373
Editorial: W W NORTON & CO, 2009

Sinopsis

One of the most highly anticipated novels of the year, Cockroach is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage s 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 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 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 everyone has a tale, and out into the frozen nighttime 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. 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 humor.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

De la contraportada

Praise for Cockroach: [A] dark and uncompromising vision. [Cockroach] offers a version of an émigré underground which is original, raw and brave. Colm Toibin 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 Searing, affecting, misanthropic. Mohsin Hamid Most fiction writers are primarily either stylists or plotters, but Hage is clearly both. There s a slight jolting sensation as the narrative shifts gear from poetic to cinematic, with guns and knives and elaborately contrived set-ups replacing the earlier evocations of drains and flesh and wintry streets, but it s all managed with great brio and expertise. James Lasdun, The Guardian|CockroachCockroachThe Guardian

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
W W NORTON & CO
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393075370
ISBN 13 
9780393075373
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
305
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780393337877: Cockroach: A Novel

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0393337871 ISBN 13:  9780393337877
Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010
Tapa blanda