Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
A comic triumph… How do you make a show of people who are doing
such a fabulous job of making a show of themselves? McEwan manages
to do so with great style and comic panache.
*Observer, Book of the Day*
The Cockroach is a satirical novella for our times, sharply
observed and often very funny… an entertaining read, confronting
the reality of Britain today.
*Eastern Daily Press, *Book of the Week**
The latest instalment in his [McEwan’s] imaginative scrambling of
English social history and of reality… [McEwan] finds room, amid
all the Hansard send-ups and diplomatic silliness, to allude to
more troubling physical-philosophical quandaries, while positing an
alternative history of economic thought that culminates in a
wayward version of our present.
*New Statesman*
Brexit has such a camp, knowing, performative quality that it is
almost impossible to inflate it any further… McEwan manages to do
so with great style and comic panache… very funny… McEwan’s comic
parable at least provides some relief from a political farce that
has long gone beyond a joke.
*Observer*
A well-constructed novella by a master of the art.
*Big Issue*
The satire is impeccably managed. Cleverly rendered, yet imprecise
parallels ensure there is sufficient distance for the humour to be
effective… it is comic relief in the darkest sense.
*Cherwell Newspaper*
Like McEwan's other work, The Cockroach is a beautifully written
novella and an in-depth critique of Britain's current political
situation… I found this an exciting and inventive retelling of
Kafka's classic tale, and a clever commentary on not just Brexit,
but modern British politics as a whole.
*SCAN*
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