Hage writes brilliantly of the hidden lives teeming in a modern city' -The Times 

THE COCKROACH LIVES WHERE AND HOWEVER HE CAN

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... Invigorating, managed with great brio and expertise. Further evidence of Hage's large and unsettling talent' -Guardian

Gripping. A humane and compassionate storyteller'-New Statesman

Sharp-witted and funny -The Times Literary Supplement