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27 de sept. de 2019 · The Cockroach. Ian McEwan. 3.26. 9,740 ratings1,285 reviews. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis.
The Cockroach is a satirical novella by the author Ian McEwan, published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape, inspired by Kafka's The Metamorphosis and loosely based on the ramifications of Brexit.
Título original: The Cockroach. Editorial: Anagrama. Año publicación: 2020. Traducción por: Antonio-Prometeo Moya Valle. Temas: Narrativa. Resumen y sinopsis de La cucaracha de Ian McEwan. McEwan afila los colmillos: una mordaz sátira de la Inglaterra del Brexit y la Europa de los populismos.
At the end of a working week, an employee hands over money to the company for all the hours that she has toiled. But when she goes to the shops, she is generously compensated at retail rates for every item she carries away. She is forbidden by law to hoard cash.
A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Kafka meets the world of Brexit in this bitingly funny novel centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England.
25 de sept. de 2019 · McEwan’s slim new novel is about a cockroach that wakes up in the body of a man who happens to be the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
27 de sept. de 2019 · The Cockroach is a novella in which the main character, Jim Sams, undergoes a metamorphosis from an average nobody to the most powerful man in Britain when he wakes up to find himself the Prime Minister.
