# Cockroach

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- Book: [Cockroach](https://www.bookquiver.com/rawi-hage/cockroach) ([Cockroach.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rawi-hage/cockroach.md))
- Authors: [Rawi Hage](https://www.bookquiver.com/rawi-hage)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-081-3
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2010-06-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Our unnamed narrator has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land. But he brings with him secrets - of a family tragedy that he failed to prevent and a childhood overshadowed by war. And as he wanders snowy streets, falling in love with fellow exile Shoreh, he realizes that to find a place in this alien world it is necessary to become someone else. Someone he never dared to be in his past life . . .