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The cockroach
Title:
The cockroach
Author:
ISBN:
9780735280472
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Info:
Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2019.
Material Type:
Trade Paperback
Physical Description:
99 pages ; 20 cm
Language:
English
Abstract:
"Kafka meets the world of Brexit in a bitingly funny political satire from Ian McEwan That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous six-legged existence he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he has woken up to discover he is the most powerful man in Britain: the Prime Minister. His mission: a nationalist revival, with or without Europe. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny, Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humour a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head."-- Provided by publisher.
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