The Road Home - A Novel (Paperback)

In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev makes 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 already 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 by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious 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, and her novel never loses sight of what is truly important in the lives we lead.

General

Imprint:	Little, Brown
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2009
First published:	May 2009
Authors:	Rose Tremain
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	411
ISBN-13:	978-0-316-00262-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-316-00262-3
Barcode:	9780316002622

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