num_pages: 324
description: Cockroach takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreals 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 nave therapist. This sets the story in motion leading us back to the narrators violent childhood in a war-torn country forward into his current life in the smoky migr cafs and out into the frozen nighttime streets of Montreal. Bold haunting and emotionally trenchant Cockroach is a powerful story of immigrant experience indignation and unrelenting fortitude.
language: English
title: Cockroach
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company