The Road Home - Softcover
'On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving ...' Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. Readers will become totally involved with his story, as he struggles with the mysterious rituals of 'Englishness', and the fashions and fads of the London scene. We see the road Lev travels through Lev's eyes, and we share his dilemmas: the intimacy of his friendships, old and new; his joys and sufferings; his aspirations and his hopes of finding his way home, wherever home may be.
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'Tremain allows us to see our country's wonders and failings as if for the first time' -- Glamour
'...filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a
passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor' -- The Sunday Times
'This is a finely balanced novel of urgent humanity...The Road
Home should keep you gripped...and fraught with anxious sympathy...'
-- The Sunday Telegraph
`...a classic work by the gifted Tremain' -- The Guardian
`...an interesting and at times poetic, take on the new immigrant
experience,' -- Express: Rev'd Lianne Kolirin
`...some beautifully affecting writing about nostalgia and a
father's pain. Their reunion made me cry' -- Scotland on Sunday
`A moving story, beautifully told.' -- Red Magazine: Rev'd Alex Clarke
`A thoughtful, moving, timely novel'
-- The Gloss
`It is Rose Tremain's ability to pluck triumph from disaster which
makes her such an engaging writer..' -- Literary Review
`a strikingly alert and humane profile of migrant labour...wild
and beautiful and full of woe'
-- Sunday Herald: Rev'd Brian Morton
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'...filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a
passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor' -- The Sunday Times
'This is a finely balanced novel of urgent humanity...The Road
Home should keep you gripped...and fraught with anxious sympathy...'
-- The Sunday Telegraph
`...a classic work by the gifted Tremain' -- The Guardian
`...an interesting and at times poetic, take on the new immigrant
experience,' -- Express: Rev'd Lianne Kolirin
`...some beautifully affecting writing about nostalgia and a
father's pain. Their reunion made me cry' -- Scotland on Sunday
`A moving story, beautifully told.' -- Red Magazine: Rev'd Alex Clarke
`A thoughtful, moving, timely novel'
-- The Gloss
`It is Rose Tremain's ability to pluck triumph from disaster which
makes her such an engaging writer..' -- Literary Review
`a strikingly alert and humane profile of migrant labour...wild
and beautiful and full of woe'
-- Sunday Herald: Rev'd Brian Morton
WINNER OF THE 2008 ORANGE BROADBAND PRIZE FOR FICTION
Rose Tremain's hugely enjoyable new novel is the up-to-the-minute story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe. A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.
Rose Tremain's hugely enjoyable new novel is the up-to-the-minute story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe. A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0701177934
- ISBN 13 9780701177935
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages384
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