Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2006 |
Seiten | 224 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,3 cm |
B-format | |
Gewicht | 174 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
ISBN-10 | 0141188669 |
EAN | 9780141188669 |
Bestell-Nr | 14118866EA |
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.