“How to exist and not to belong?” asks the unnamed protagonist and narrator of Rawi Hage’s second novel, Cockroach.
The 2008 novel by Hage, an acclaimed Lebanese Canadian writer and photographer based in Montréal, Québec, explores issues of immigration, assimilation, belonging and identity in the early post-9/11 world. The story unfolds through the eyes of an impoverished and psychologically disturbed Arab migrant in Montréal.
