Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:02/11/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141188669
Other Formats
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- Paperback / softback from £11.95
- Hardback from £22.75
Information
-
Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:02/11/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141188669