Road Home

From the Sunday Times bestselling author

AvRose Tremain

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Engelska, 2009

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'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' ObserverA wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British: their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging...'A novel of urgent humanity' Sunday TelegraphPraise for Rose Tremain:'One of my favourite writers' Nina Stibbe'Tremain is one of the best novelists writing today' Sara Collins'Pulsatingly alive . . . no one can break your heart quite like this' Neel Mukherjee

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-05-13
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781409078647
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and France’s Prix Femina (Sacred Country), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

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"A novel of urgent humanity" Sunday Telegraph "Rose Tremain does not disappoint. The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia... As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision" Observer "Filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor" Sunday Times "A classic work by the gifted Tremain" Guardian "'Tremain is a magnificent story-teller'" Independent on sunday