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The Road Home: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
Rose Tremain
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Description for The Road Home: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
Paperback. Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. This book shows readers the struggles that he faces with the rituals of 'Englishness', and the fashions and fads of the London scene. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 272.
'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' Observer
A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.
Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British: their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099478461
SKU
V9780099478461
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-97
About Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina in France (Sacred Country) and the South ... Read more
Reviews for The Road Home: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
A novel of urgent humanity
Sunday Telegraph
Rose Tremain does not disappoint. The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia... As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision
Observer
Filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor
Sunday Times
... Read more
Sunday Telegraph
Rose Tremain does not disappoint. The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia... As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision
Observer
Filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor
Sunday Times
... Read more