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.
| ISBN: | 9780141188669 |
| Publication date: | 2nd November 2006 |
| Author: | Max Frisch |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 217 pages |
| Series: | Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Fiction in translation |
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.
Homo Faber features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction in translation
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Homo Faber was written by Max Frisch and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Homo Faber has 217 pages
Yes it is part of Modern Classics series
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