The Road Home: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Tremain, Rose

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316002615 ISBN 13 : 9780316002615

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Tremain Rose

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"...[Tremain} proves herself again magically capable of animating a character from the inside out, illuminating the heart of one modern exile with an extraordinary degree of love, imagination and insight. The pleasure, the wit and the joy in humanity that Tremain brings to every page do what literature, at its best, should do: connect us, as E.M. Forster famously exhorted. Particularly, connect us to the invisible, the lonely, the barely seen." (Los Angeles Times Stacey D'Erasmo)

"A gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life." (Seattle Times Robert Allen Papinchak)

"Memorable. . .The journey through alienation toward self-respect and prosperity runs on a well-traveled road, but Tremain's vivid prose and attention to detail make this incarnation both convincing and pleasurable." (The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Susan Grimm)

"Tremain's protagonists are often faced with trials that have a fabled quality...and her latest novel is no exception...At once timeless and bitingly contemporary, this novel explores the life now lived by millions--when one's hope lies in one country and one's heart in another." (New Yorker)

"It's not difficult to see why author Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize--a prestigious British fiction award--for her latest novel, The Road Home. From page one, Tremain plunges readers deep into the journey of Lev, an immigrant from an unnamed Eastern European country...An unexpected, poignant story." (Chicago Sun Times Allecia Vermillion)

"An immigrant's tale and an outsider's journey of self-discovery. The concept is nothing new, but Tremain's prose saves Lev from cliché and produces an unexpected, poignant story... this British novel can remind any American reader of the loneliness and hope of the immigrant experience." (Chicago Sun-Times Allecia Vermillion)

"Tremain transforms this episodic road story into a gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life." (Seattle Times Robert Allen Papinchak)

"Timely and moving." (TimeOut Sophie Fels)

"If life truly is all about the journey, then we're fortunate to have Rose Tremain as our guide...The Road Home is the work of a generous author, a guide who reveals the strangeness in the place we once imagined was home." (Miami Herald Ellen Kanner)

"Rose Tremain so fully inhabits her characters, she's a virtual stowaway in their lives...Tremain's 10th novel is a moving, utterly absorbing portrait of deracination, hope, loss, longing and fortitude...Her writing is so good, she makes us hear English anew, from the viewpoint of someone not fully fluent." (San Francisco Chronicle Heller McAlpin)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys--he has found a friend and shelter. However constricted his life in England remains he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker (and dodging the attentions of other women), and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious old friend Rudi who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet.
Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn't belong, body or soul, to his new country-but can he really go home again? Rose Tremain's prodigious talents as a prose writer are on full display in THE ROAD HOME, but her novel never loses sight of what is truly important in the lives we lead.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown and Company
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0316002615
• ISBN 13: 9780316002615
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432