Read and discuss this funny satire about UK politics by master story teller Ian McEwan
Highlights
- Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
- 3 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
- Discuss Brexit, and satire in this humorous, comic short story
- Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes
Practise and develop your English online in this 3 week English book club course featuring Ian McEwan's The Cockroach. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
The Book Club book
The first line of this book references Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis: "That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature." However, unlike Kafka, our protagonist is a cockroach transformed into a human - and this human is the British Prime Minister!
We follow Jim in his mission to carry out the "will of the people", overcoming all the obstacles in his way. Ian McEwan is a masterful story teller, and this story has this trademark intelligence, insight and wit. If you wonder how Britain managed to end its successful 40 year old relationship with the European Union - this is a book you should read!
Geoff says:
"This book shares something with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels - it's a biting political satire, written in elegant prose, and raising important questions about how we got to Brexit and beyond. Highly recommended to understand recent UK politics!"
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| Age | 18+ |
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Online class size |
Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion |
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