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The Cockroach

Yazan: Ian McEwan
Seslendiren: Bill Nighy
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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 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.

With trademark intelligence, insight and scabrous humour, Ian McEwan pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head.

 Genre Fiction Kurgu Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Political Satire Komedi Esprili Komik
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A comic triumph… How do you make a show of people who are doing such a fabulous job of making a show of themselves? McEwan manages to do so with great style and comic panache. (Fintan O'Toole)
The Cockroach is a satirical novella for our times, sharply observed and often very funny… an entertaining read, confronting the reality of Britain today.
The latest instalment in his [McEwan’s] imaginative scrambling of English social history and of reality… [McEwan] finds room, amid all the Hansard send-ups and diplomatic silliness, to allude to more troubling physical-philosophical quandaries, while positing an alternative history of economic thought that culminates in a wayward version of our present. (Leo Robson)
Brexit has such a camp, knowing, performative quality that it is almost impossible to inflate it any further… McEwan manages to do so with great style and comic panache… very funny… McEwan’s comic parable at least provides some relief from a political farce that has long gone beyond a joke. (Fintan O'Toole)
A well-constructed novella by a master of the art. (Stephen Bush)
The satire is impeccably managed. Cleverly rendered, yet imprecise parallels ensure there is sufficient distance for the humour to be effective… it is comic relief in the darkest sense. (Cora MacGregor)
Like McEwan's other work, The Cockroach is a beautifully written novella and an in-depth critique of Britain's current political situation… I found this an exciting and inventive retelling of Kafka's classic tale, and a clever commentary on not just Brexit, but modern British politics as a whole. (Meg Horridge)
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Very entertaining short book. The allegories are huge fun. Enjoy. Thank you Mr McEwan. Cheered me up during this post election slump. Dec 2019

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This parody of the horrors of Brexit is too close for comfort - a must read!

Scary and hilarious!

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Not a great work of fiction, but an attempted catharsis of the disaster of Brexit, although the laughter is bitter. So convincingly rooted in painful remembered events and personalities that it reads like journalism 😖

Funny satire. If only it weren't true

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What an imaginative story, with a cockroach awaking to find he is prime minister. Written beautifully with wit, i can thoroughly recommend this short read. The idea of reversalist economics is laugh-out-loud funny, and almost as absurd as some of the economic decisions our recent governments have made.

A wonderful take on Kafka

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A book that explains how and why we've got ourselves into such a mess :-)

Enjoyable political satire

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