Homo Faber
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:2nd Nov '06
£9.99
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The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life.
ISBN: 9780141188669
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 18mm
Weight: 180g
224 pages