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Homo Faber, Paperback / softback Book

Homo Faber Paperback / softback

Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series

Paperback / softback

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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.

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