The Road Home
From the Sunday Times bestselling author
$35.76
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
21 May 2020
Summary
Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, The Road Home is a wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.
‘Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.’ - Observer
Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099478461 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099478463 |
| Author: | Rose Tremain |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 21 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
“One of the finest writers in English.” Daily Telegraph “Tremain is a magnificent story-teller.” Independent on Sunday
A novel of urgent humanity * Sunday Telegraph *
Rose Tremain does not disappoint. The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia… As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision * Observer *
Filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor * Sunday Times *
A classic work by the gifted Tremain * Guardian *
‘Tremain is a magnificent story-teller’ * Independent on sunday *
…bravely imaginative, deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying * Independent *
Luminous talent for the fusion of the extraordinary and the commonplace * Sunday Telegraph *
I can’t think of a better sentence-to-sentence writer of fiction * Irish Times *
A strikingly alert and humane profile of migrant labour… wild and beautiful and full of woe * Sunday Herald *
Vivid, original and always engaging * The Times *
About The Author
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain’s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel’s Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and France’s Prix Femina (Sacred Country), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
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