The Cockroach

“That morning, Jim Sams—no genius, but with a moustache—woke up after an uneasy dream and found that he’d turned into a giant creature.” In his previous life, he was despised by many, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain. He has arrived to carry out an important mission, and nothing can stop him—not the opposition, not members of his own party, and not even the principles of democracy. Smart, sharp, satirical: recalling one of Kafka’s best-known works—“The Metamorphosis”—McEwan tells about a modern world that seems too crazy to be real.