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The Road Home

A Novel

By Rose Tremain

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| Others | 9780316002622

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In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev makes his way
from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his ...

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  • THE ROAD HOME by Rose Tremain

    Review by Bonnie Brody (DEC 16, 2009) The eminent, award-winning British Author, Rose Tremain, has written another lovely book. The Road Home is about Lev, an eastern European immigrant and his travails and successes in the big city of London. Lev is ... (read full critics)

    mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

  • 'The Road Home' by Rose Tremain

    Rose Tremain is one of those British authors who has been on the periphery of my reading existence for about 10 years. She's been hard at work crafting novels -- 11 at last count -- and the odd short story collection, but I have only ever read Music ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

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    “the grapes of wrath” it isn’t. an east european immigrant lands in london, meets solidarity, friendship and even love (well, sex at least), makes good money working hard and goes back home to a future of relative affluence. enjoyable but banal, a feel-good book very distant from reality. lev can’t ... (continue)

    “the grapes of wrath” it isn’t. an east european immigrant lands in london, meets solidarity, friendship and even love (well, sex at least), makes good money working hard and goes back home to a future of relative affluence. enjoyable but banal, a feel-good book very distant from reality. lev can’t manage english but writes XXX in text; and his mission is introducing his fellow countrymen to “lovely britsh food” (!).

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  • English Books
  • Others 432 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0316002623
  • ISBN-13: 9780316002622
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
  • Pub date: May 01, 2009
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
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