Books by Rawi Hage
Cockroach
by Rawi Hage
It’s about an immigrant who comes to Montreal and lives the life of a cockroach – which means he’s a little thief, endlessly hungry, and he’s searching for food other people are throwing out. He’s capable of getting into other people’s houses and stealing some objects just so that he can get a little bit of an entry into normal life, and he’s also lonely, loveless and an absolute outcast, almost like a non-human being. It’s gripping because it has a parallel story of the trauma that happened to the main character in his homeland.
Interviews where books by Rawi Hage were recommended
The best books on Misery in the Modern World, recommended by Renata Salecl
The Slovenian philosophy professor decries the tyranny of choice and says we now expect long life, a beautiful body, sexual and job satisfaction. But the idea that we can perfect ourselves dooms us to failure and misery
