**A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-era take on Kafka's _Metamorphosis_ , centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. An Anchor Original.** _That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dr
The Cockroach
โ Scribed by McEwan, Ian
- Publisher
- Random House; Alfred A. Knopf Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 39 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- England., Great Britain,Great Britain.
- ISBN
- 0735280487
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โฆ Synopsis
"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."--
โฆ Subjects
England
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