"I’m afraid the people who like it will probably be Remainers and the people who loathe it will be Brexiters. I probably have to get back to it.” He hopes readers find the novella “therapeutic” but doesn't expect it to change any minds. McEwan doubts The Cockroach will be his last word on the subject. I wish I could give you some arguments for it." When I'm abroad and people say, 'What the f*** are you doing?' I say, 'I don't know. "Let’s stop pretending that there are two sides to this argument," he says. McEwan on the Today Programme, declined an invitation to say something conciliatory about Leave voters. The Cockroach is a satirical novella by the author Ian McEwan, published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape, inspired by Kafka's The Metamorphosis and loosely based on the ramifications of Brexit.
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