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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.
Sep 27, 2019 · Supposedly a Brexit satire, The Cockroach is well-written, but ultimately thin stuff. The PM and his cabinet ministers have been bodyswapped with cockroaches. The roaches take the opportunity to implement their fiendish plot: Reversalism, a scheme to reverse the flow of funds in the economic system.
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.
- Ian McEwan
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.
Oct 1, 2019 · 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...
Sep 27, 2019 · Random House, Sep 27, 2019 - Fiction - 112 pages. Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke...
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.
Sep 27, 2019 · The Cockroach is a novella in which the main character, Jim Sams, undergoes a metamorphosis from an average nobody to the most powerful man in Britain when he wakes up to find himself the Prime Minister. Sams’ mission? To carry out the will of the people, no matter what - or whom - gets in his way.
Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new 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 “The Cockroach,” Ian McEwan explores the absurdity of human existence through the perspective of a cockroach who wakes up one day to find himself transformed into a human. The story is a satirical take on Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” but with a twist.
