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Cockroach takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal’s restless immigrant community, where a self-described 'thief' has just tried but failed to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree in a local park.  Rescued against his will, the narrator is obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned but naïve therapist . . . 

Bold, haunting, and emotionally penetrating, Cockroach is a powerful story of an immigrant experience, indignation, and unrelenting fortitude.

"Hage's largest debt is naturally to Kafka, but in grating these influences onto a Montreal immigrant's story, he has managed to recontextualize and transcend them ... a potent, honest dissection of material that is too often ignored by Canadian writers." -- Quill & Quire