• Cockroach is a dark comedy book by Canadian author Rawi Hage. It was released in 2008, published by Anansi. It is a teen/adult book for advanced literature...
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  • Cockroaches (Norwegian: Kakerlakkene, 1998) is a crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the second in the Harry Hole series. Norway's ambassador to...
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  • Look up cockroach in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cockroach is an insect of the order Blattodea. Cockroach may also refer to: Cockroach (novel), a 2008...
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    Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats...
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  • The Revolt of the Cockroach People is a novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta. It tells the story of a Chicano lawyer, "Buffalo Zeta Brown", fictionalizing events...
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  • 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...
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    American giant cave cockroach or Brazilian cockroach, is a cockroach belonging to the family Blaberidae. One of the world's largest cockroaches, it is native...
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  • with humans, cockroaches are frequently referred to in art, literature, folk tales, and theater and film. In Western culture, cockroaches are often depicted...
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    La Cucaracha (category Works about cockroaches)
    La Cucaracha ("The Cockroach") is a popular folk song about a cockroach who cannot walk. The song's origins are Spanish, but it became popular in the 1910s...
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    Pacific beetle cockroach, is a species of cockroach in the family Blaberidae and subfamily Diplopterinae. It is one of the few cockroach species that is...
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    He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), and was friends with...
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  • War of the Coprophages (category Works about cockroaches)
    effect of a cockroach infestation, the show used around three hundred cockroaches for the episode in addition to extremely detailed rubber cockroach props and...
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  • Marc Estrin's debut surrealist novel, Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa (2002), "resurrects Kafka's half-cockroach Gregor character" vis-à-vis...
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  • specific characteristics of the murderer in The Bat. The second book, Cockroaches, set in Thailand, has been translated to English, fifteen years after...
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    The Passion According to G.H. (category Works about cockroaches)
    telling of the crisis that ensued the previous day after she crushed a cockroach in the door of a wardrobe. Its canonical status was recognized in 1988...
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    and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach. About 70 printed pages, it is the longest of the stories Kafka considered...
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  • Cockroach Cooties is a children's novel by Laurence Yep. Two brothers, Teddy and Bobby, try to defend themselves from a school bully named Arnie. The...
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    Archy and Mehitabel (category Fictional cockroaches)
    a columnist for The Evening Sun newspaper in New York City. Archy, a cockroach, and Mehitabel, an alley cat, appeared in hundreds of humorous verses...
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  • The Nest (1988 film) (category Films about cockroaches)
    small New England town that is overrun by genetically engineered killer cockroaches. The local sheriff (Luz) joins forces with his former girlfriend (Langlois)...
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    1975 satire Smile; she got the role after doing an impression of a "dead cockroach" at the audition. She also appeared as the tutor and girlfriend of Robby...
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  • Bug (1975 film) (category Films about cockroaches)
    successfully breeds the new species with a modern cockroach, creating a breed of intelligent, flying super-cockroaches. Parmiter goes into seclusion at a farm after...
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  • The Life of Insects (category Novels by Victor Pelevin)
    (Russian: «Жизнь насекомых») is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 1993. The novel consists of 15 chapters. The novel is set in the early 1990s in...
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  • Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (category 1972 American novels)
    Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo is the first novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta and it focuses on his own self-discovery in a fictionalized manner. An autobiography...
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  • six Animorphs ISBN 0-590-03639-4 30 The Reunion June 1999 Elise Donner Cockroach Marco 0-590-76263-X 31 The Conspiracy July 1999 Laura Battyanyi-Weiss...
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    future science fiction films, including emerald jewel wasps that turn cockroaches into subservient puppets, able to crawl but unable to act independently;...
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  • Harry Hole (category Characters in crime novel series)
    first novel, The Bat, he travels to Sydney, Australia to aid the Australian police (who refer to him as "Harry Holy"). In the second novel, Cockroaches, he...
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    Ian McEwan (section Novels)
    quick surprise follow-up novella inspired by Brexit, The Cockroach. McEwan published his novel Lessons in 2022 to much critical acclaim. Andrew Billen...
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  • Airborn is a 2004 young adult novel by Kenneth Oppel. The novel is set in an alternate history where the airplane has not been invented, and instead,...
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    Flaggermusmannen (1997) (English: The Bat, 2012) Kakerlakkene (1998) (English: Cockroaches, 2013) Rødstrupe (2000) (English: The Redbreast, 2006) Sorgenfri (2002)...
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    cases regarding cockroach infestations of council properties led to a local paper, the South London Press, dubbing him "The Cockroach King". According...
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