About the Book: The Cockroach
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 Kafkas most