Homo Faber

(Author) Max Frisch
Format: Paperback
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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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Publisher:
Penguin UK
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
206
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780141188669
Publish year:
2006
Publish date:
Nov. 2, 2006

Max Frisch

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