Homo Faber

Author:   Max Frisch
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
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9780141188669


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   02 November 2006
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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Author:   Max Frisch
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Volume:  
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.180kg
ISBN:  

9780141188669


ISBN 10:   0141188669
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   02 November 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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Max Frisch (1911-1991) Swiss novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist, who began his career as an architect before achieving fame with the play When the War Was Over in 1949. His most famous novels are Stiller (1954) and Homo Faber (1957).

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