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Sep 27, 2019 · Supposedly a Brexit satire, The Cockroach is well-written, but ultimately thin stuff. The PM and his cabinet ministers have been bodyswapped with cockroaches. The roaches take the opportunity to implement their fiendish plot: Reversalism, a scheme to reverse the flow of funds in the economic system.
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A cockroach becomes the prime minister of the UK and implements a bizarre policy of Reversalism, where workers pay employers and exporters pay importers. The novella, inspired by Kafka's The Metamorphosis, is a comic critique of Brexit and its supporters and opponents.
Sep 25, 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.
Sep 27, 2019 · The Cockroach. Ian McEwan. Random House, Sep 27, 2019 - Fiction - 112 pages. Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwanThat morning, Jim Sams, clever but...
A man wakes up as a giant cockroach and becomes the prime minister of Britain in this Kafkaesque comedy. The Cockroach is a political satire that explores the Brexit crisis and the rules of democracy.
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Oct 1, 2019 · 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...
The Cockroach by Ian McEwan is a political satire making fun of the British prime minister and Brexit (Britain's exiting of the European Union).
