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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.
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.
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...
In an extended short story, a cockroach hijacks the body of the Prime Minister, Jim Sams, at a time of political crisis (not Brexit, but a deeply contentious economic proposal which has split the nation).
About The Cockroach. 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.
The Cockroach by Ian McEwan is a political satire making fun of the British prime minister and Brexit (Britain's exiting of the European Union).
