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Sep 27, 2019 · A political satire inspired by Kafka's The Metamorphosis, where a man wakes up as a giant cockroach and becomes the most powerful leader in Britain. Read ratings, reviews, and excerpts from this darkly humorous and provocative fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author.
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The Cockroach is a satirical novella by the author Ian McEwan, published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape, inspired by Kafka's The Metamorphosis and loosely based on the ramifications of Brexit. Background [ edit ]
Sep 25, 2019 · McEwan’s slim new novel is about a cockroach that wakes up in the body of a man who happens to be the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Ian McEwan’s 2019 novel, “The Cockroach,” presents a unique and satirical take on Brexit and British politics. Through the story of a cockroach who wakes up one day in the body of the Prime Minister, McEwan explores themes of power, identity, and societal values.
A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement: Kafka meets the world of Brexit in this bitingly funny novel centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England.
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Sep 27, 2019 · The Cockroach. Ian McEwan. Random House, Sep 27, 2019 - Fiction - 112 pages. Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwanThat morning, Jim Sams, clever but...
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Kafka meets the world of Brexit in this bitingly funny novel centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature.
