The Road Home
by Rose Tremain | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099478463 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0099478463 Global Overview for this book
Registered by gillg of South Perth, Western Australia Australia on 8/11/2011
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
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. (2008)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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. (2008)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Journal Entry 2 by gillg at Angelo Street in South Perth, Western Australia Australia on Sunday, August 14, 2011
Released 12 yrs ago (8/14/2011 UTC) at Angelo Street in South Perth, Western Australia Australia
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
left in the front of the Commonwealth Bank beneath the ATM