{"product_id":"9780393076837","title":"Cockroach: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bold, razor-sharp novel about a shadowy antihero navigating Montreal’s immigrant underworld.\u003c\/p\u003e One of the most highly anticipated novels of the year, \u003ci\u003eCockroach\u003c\/i\u003e is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage’s critically acclaimed first book, \u003ci\u003eDe Niro’s Game\u003c\/i\u003e. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal’s 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 naive therapist. This sets the story in motion, leading us back to the narrator’s violent 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 the thief survives on the edge, imagining himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, but willfully blind, citizens who surround him.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCockroach\u003c\/i\u003e combines an uncompromising vision of humanity with razor-sharp portraits of society's outsiders, and a startling, poetic sensibility with bracing jolts of dark humor.","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121503027440,"sku":"9780393076837","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393076837_p0.jpg?v=1769892572","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393076837","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}