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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141188669Number of pages: 224Weight: 180 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 18 mm
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