Description
| Product ID: | 9780141188669 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | Homo Faber |
| Authors: | Author: Max Frisch |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-11-02 |
