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Beschreibung
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 . . .
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 . . .
Über den Autor
Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war during the 1970s and 1980s. He emigrated to Canada in 1992 and now lives in Montreal. His first novel, De Niro's Game, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the best English-language book published anywhere in the world in a given year, and has either won or been shortlisted for seven other major awards and prizes. Cockroach was the winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780141040813
ISBN-10: 0141040815
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hage, Rawi
Hersteller: Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Rawi Hage
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2010
Gewicht: 0,385 kg
Artikel-ID: 134113285

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