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First printing w/complete number sequence. Award-winner Hage's second book, this one telling the story of an immigrant to Canada, a thief who attempts suicide but is rescued against his will "and obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned by naive therapist," soon "leading us back into the narrator's childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky emigre cafes where everyone has a tale to tell, and out into the frozen streets of the city after dark where the thief survives on the edge." Blue cloth w/silver spine lettering, 305 pages. Light rubbing and a hint of edgewear to dust jacket.
Title: Cockroach
Categories: Canadian Fiction,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Toronto, Anansi: 2008
ISBN Number: 0887842097
ISBN Number 13: 9780887842092
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Size: Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall
Seller ID: 017515
Keywords: NOISBN, Cockroach, Rawi Hage, Canadian literature, winter, Montreal, immigrants, therapy, suicide