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.
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ISBN | 9780141188669 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Schweizer SchriftstellerInnen, Werke (div.), Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Penguin Books |
Jahr | 20061102 |
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