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In carnival, internationally acclaimed author rawi hage takes us into the world of fly, a taxi driver in a crimeridden apocalyptic metropolis. On the surface, this is a relentlessly negative and depressing portrait of an immigrant to north america and of his participation in the underside of life here, as a taxi driver in a large city. Everything he knows or discovers has been either discredited or is false, and he is left with a seemingly inescapable fatalism that i suspect is part of many immigrants lives, whether in. Apr 15, 2015 the unnamed narrator of rawi hages widely acclaimed second novel, cockroach, is a young man from beirut, trying to make a life in montreals demimonde of middle eastern emigres. The author has left his middleeastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. Cockroach ebook by rawi hage 9780887848506 rakuten kobo. The unnamed narrator fittingly unnamed as one would not name a cockroach is the antihero of this tale of survival without hope, which takes place during a extremely harsh winter in montreal, a city known more for beauty than the lowlife activity which occurs in this story. A man, who is an immigrant from the middle east, moves to the slums of montreal, where he learns that he is stuck in poverty. On the surface, this is a relentlessly negative and depressing portrait of an immigrant to. Now on the verge of adulthood, they must choose their futures.