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 cafés 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. Cockroach is a carnivalesque, philosophical novel that weaves dark humor with an accusatory, satirical voice, spawning from the subsurface to challenge humanity and its downfall.
- ISBN10 0393337871
- ISBN13 9780393337877
- Publish Date 4 October 2011 (first published 5 August 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 January 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 324
- Language English