The Cockroach

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. 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 humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.

Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons.

Book information

ISBN: 9780593082423
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Anchor Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 99
Weight: 120g
Height: 130mm
Width: 203mm
Spine width: 8mm