Nouveau
LIVRES
Hage, Rawi
Toronto, ON : Anansi, 2009
In Montreal's restless immigrant community, our unnamed narrator is living in despair. Forced to visit a therapist after a suicide attempt, he brings us back to his childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky émigré cafes where everyone has a tale, and out into the frozen nighttime streets of Montreal, where he imagines himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, but willfully blind, citizens who surround him. With Cockroach, the award-winning author of De Niro's Game gives us a carnivalesque, philosophical novel that weaves dark humour with an accusatory, satirical voice, spawning from the subsurface to challenge humanity and its downfall.
In Montreal's restless immigrant community, our unnamed narrator is living in despair. Forced to visit a therapist after a suicide attempt, he brings us back to his childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky émigré cafes where everyone has a tale, and out into the frozen nighttime streets of Montreal, where he imagines himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, but willfully blind, citizens ...
Cote : HAG