The Cockroach

Resumen del libro

Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy.

With trademark intelligence, insight and scabrous humour, Ian McEwan pays tribute to Franz Kafka's most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Javier Fernández de Castro, nacido en Aranda de Duero, Burgos, en 1942, pasó parte de su infancia en Zaragoza, trasladándose después a Barcelona y Pamplona, donde estudió periodismo. Desde en tonces ha ejercido diversos oficios relacionados con la prensa, la televisión, la enseñanza y la edi ción, siempre buscando la distancia necesaria para poder escribir novelas, entre las que se cuentan: x{0026}lt;em Alimento del saltox{0026}lt;/em (Barral, 1974),x{0026}lt;em Así en la tierrax{0026}lt;/em (Barral, 1977), x{0026}lt;em El laberinto de fango x{0026}lt;/em (Argos Verga ra, 1983) y x{0026}lt;em La novia del capitánx{0026}lt;/em (Mondadori, 1987).x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Foto Elsbeth Franckenx{0026}lt;/p