Description

Throughout a bitterly cold winter in a wintry northern town, a self confessed crook has simply attempted to commit suicide by hanging herself from the tree in the neighborhood playground. Saved against his will and required to go to classes using a well-meaning but naive counselor, our narrator informs her - and us - his hallucinatory and heart-rending tale. From his youth in a conflict-torn Arab country, to his present life in the smoky emigre bars of his new town, "Cockroach" traces our narrator's trip - his yearning for a location on the planet, his shame over his cousin's death in the hands of her spouse, and his love for an Iranian lady, Shoreh, whose life can also be a trip from the night of yesteryear. Whilst our narrator should face the activities of yesteryear in the shape of another ethical but possibly murderous problem in our, the stories in this amazing guide meet,