Give My Regards to Your Lovely Spouse
Boris Fishman
- BuyCockroach by Rawi Hage
Hamish Hamilton, 305 pp, £14.99, June 2009, ISBN 978 0 241 14444 2
Behold the Immigrant Male, North American edition. He is a horror: a debauchee who pleads with a 16-year-old girl to let him ‘see’; a sweaty, smelly, barbaric impostor among his pale-faced countrymen; a scar across their smooth sense of progress and reason, their ‘state of permanent denial of the bad smells from sewers, infested slums, unheated apartments, single mothers on welfare, worn-out clothing’.
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