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“... slums, unheated apartments, single mothers on welfare, worn-out clothing’. That, at least, is Rawi Hage’s idea in Cockroach, his second novel; his first, De Niro’s Game, concerned a young anti-hero’s efforts to escape Lebanon’s civil war. Immigrant literature is hardly a niche industry in the United States and Canada (...”

“... is Youssef Habchi El-Achkar, a Lebanese writer deftly evoked for us in a note by the translator Rawi Hage. The story is set in 1975, in the early days of the civil war. The very desultoriness of the writer-narrator’s notes is part of the atmosphere: visibly failing to know what to think, how to think at all, defines the historical situation. In ...”