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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, coming in September!
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The Cockroach, Ian McEwan
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2019
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- The Cockroach
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Ian McEwan
- Verlag
- Vintage
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2019
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 112
- ISBN10
- 0593082427
- ISBN13
- 9780593082423
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Humor, Gegenwartsliteratur, Politik, Europa, England, Großbritannien, Englische Literatur, Novellen, Satire, Machtkampf, Transformation, Erzählung, Manipulation, Brexit
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2019
- Originaltitel
- The Cockroach
- Bewertung
- 3,2 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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, coming in September!