Homo Faber

Author(s): Frisch, Max
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 02/11/2006,
Pagination: 224 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780141188669,
Description:

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.