The Road Home: A Novel

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Synopsis

In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter.

After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family.

Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys--he has found a friend and shelter.

However constricted his life in England remains he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker (and dodging the attentions of other women), and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious old friend Rudi who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet.

Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn't belong, body or soul, to his new country-but can he really go home again?

Rose Tremain's prodigious talents as a prose writer are on full display in THE ROAD HOME, but her novel never loses sight of what is truly important in the lives we lead.

Winner of the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction

Copyright:
2007

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
432 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780316032827
Related ISBNs:
9780316002615
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Rose Tremain
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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