Cockroach
By: Rawi Hage
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Camberwell, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780241144480
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Thieves; Fiction; Immigrants; Arabs; Suicidal behavior; Counseling
Description: A tale set during a month in a bitter Montreal winter finds a would-be thief rescued from a suicide attempt and forced into counseling with a naïve therapist to whom he relates his childhood in a war-torn country and his troubled present life in a series of smoky émigré cafes.