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The Cockroach
- Narrateur(s): Bill Nighy
- Durée: 2 h et 13 min
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Description
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.
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature.
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy.
In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.
Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Ian McEwan is a master prose stylist, a brilliant and dutiful researcher, and he has a spring-like wit.” (The Walrus)
“[McEwan is] intelligent, has popular and literary appeal, manages credibly and interestingly to include politics in his writing, and has a gift for making an enormous range of readers feel as though he is writing about them, about their own particular life of the mind. He observes the tiny tragedies of growing up and growing old with humour and insight. And who could fail to be impressed by his great, sweeping openings, the grand settings, the incisive character portraits, the promise for the reader of finding a mirror in his protagonists, no matter how unlikely? ... A writer with such a gift for understanding the human mind.” (The Globe and Mail)
“No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan’s accomplishment.” (The Washington Post)