Categorii: Neclasificat
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2006
Editura: Penguin Classics
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 224
Colectie: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141188669
Dimensiuni: l: 12.9cm | H: 19.8cm | 1.4cm | 180g
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.