Cockroach

Rawi Hage

RRP: £14.99

Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON

Publication Date : 04/06/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A fast-moving existential thriller, the confident and darkly comic follow-up to "De Niro's Game". The author's Middle Eastern background feeds into the novel, and it has been shortlisted for major literary awards in Canada, where he now lives.

Publisher's description:

From his childhood in a war-torn Arab country, to his current life in the smoky emigre cafes of his new city, this novel traces the 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 Shoreh, whose life is also a flight from the darkness of the past.

ISBN: 9780241144442