Homo Faber A Report - Modern Classics

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Penguin Classics

In January 1946, the Penguin Classics list was launched with E. V. Rieu's translation of The Odyssey. The series now consists of over 800 titles including the best in English, American, European, classical and non-western literature and an extensive range of philosophy, religion, art, history and politics titles.

Book information

ISBN:	9780141188669
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Pub date:	02 Nov 2006
DEWEY:	833.912
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	217
Weight:	170g
Height:	197mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	14mm