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Book Title
Road Home : a Novel
Publication Name
The Road Home
Title
The Road Home
Subtitle
A Novel
Author
Rose Tremain
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0316002623
EAN
9780316002622
ISBN
9780316002622
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Genre
Fiction
Release Year
2009
Release Date
21/05/2009
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1.1in
Item Length
8.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Women, Sagas, General, Literary
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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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 little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has already lost his family. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys--he has found a friend and shelter. However constricted his life in England remains, he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker, and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious friend Rudi, who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn't belong, body or soul, to his new country--but can he really go home again? Rose Tremain's prodigious talents as a prose writer are on full display in THE ROAD HOME, and her novel never loses sight of what is truly important in the lives we lead.

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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316002623
ISBN-13
9780316002622
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71633642

Product Key Features

Book Title
Road Home : a Novel
Author
Rose Tremain
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Women, Sagas, General, Literary
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
432 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz

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"Rose Tremain brings the full tone and range of her novelist's imagination to bear on Lev, giving him, besides his enduring and endearing grief, humour, a romantic temperament, a genius for intimate male friendship and a poets' eye for images."-- Kate Clanchy , Times Literary Supplement (UK), "Rose Tremain so fully inhabits her characters, she's a virtual stowaway in their lives...Tremain's 10th novel is a moving, utterly absorbing portrait of deracination, hope, loss, longing and fortitude...Her writing is so good, she makes us hear English anew, from the viewpoint of someone not fully fluent." -- Heller McAlpin , San Francisco Chronicle, "If life truly is all about the journey, then we're fortunate to have Rose Tremain as our guide...The Road Home is the work of a generous author, a guide who reveals the strangeness in the place we once imagined was home."-- Ellen Kanner , Miami Herald, "Memorable. . .The journey through alienation toward self-respect and prosperity runs on a well-traveled road, but Tremain's vivid prose and attention to detail make this incarnation both convincing and pleasurable."-- Susan Grimm, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Tremain transforms this episodic road story into a gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life., "A gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life." -- Robert Allen Papinchak , Seattle Times, "The pleasure, the wit and the joy in humanity that Tremain brings to every page do what literature, at its best, should do: connect us, as E.M. Forester famously exhorted." -- Stacey D'Erasmo , Los Angeles Times, "A sort of anti-Candide...Lev manages to be both a symbol of migrant workers and a fully developed character in his own right...an engaging, enjoyable, and informative read."-- Booklist, Rose Tremain so fully inhabits her characters, she's a virtual stowaway in their lives...Tremain's 10th novel is a moving, utterly absorbing portrait of deracination, hope, loss, longing and fortitude...Her writing is so good, she makes us hear English anew, from the viewpoint of someone not fully fluent., Like Amy Bloom's recent novel,Away, or Ha Jin'sA Free Life, Whitbread Award winner Tremain has written a worthy addition to the growing body of work centered on the loneliness and frustration of the immigrant experience., " The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia....As always, Tremain's writing has a delicious, crunchy precision."-- Edward Marriott , The Observer (UK), "This is a powerfully imagined story and a wonderful feat of emotional empathy, told with great warmth and humor." -- Judges' citation, the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, "An immigrant's tale and an outsider's journey of self-discovery. The concept is nothing new, but Tremain's prose saves Lev from clich_ and produces an unexpected, poignant story... this British novel can remind any American reader of the loneliness and hope of the immigrant experience."-- Allecia Vermillion , Chicago Sun-Times, "An immigrant's tale and an outsider's journey of self-discovery. The concept is nothing new, but Tremain's prose saves Lev from cliché and produces an unexpected, poignant story... this British novel can remind any American reader of the loneliness and hope of the immigrant experience."-- Allecia Vermillion, Chicago Sun-Times, "A magical novel...which offers great beauty, great ugliness, great wisdom."-- Penelope Fitzgerald (on "Music and Silence"), The Spectator, "Tremain elevates the subject beyond its outlines by making Lev not a statistic or caricature or the standard-bearer of a trend but simply a man-fully embodied...A less disciplined and agile author might have been tempted to ease Lev's transition from daydreamer to doer....But Rose Tremain is in the business of inventing not so much fantasies as alternate realities." -- Liesl Schillinger , New York Times Book Review, "An immigrant's tale and an outsider's journey of self-discovery. The concept is nothing new, but Tremain's prose saves Lev from cliché and produces an unexpected, poignant story... this British novel can remind any American reader of the loneliness and hope of the immigrant experience." -- Allecia Vermillion , Chicago Sun-Times, "Why do I love Rose Tremain? It's not just the clarity of her prose, the liveliness of her plots, the precision of her settings, or the depth of her characters. I love Tremain because she is so compassionate. Her novels exemplify this moral quality, even as they excel at all the others." -- Susan Balee , The Philadelphia Inquirer, "The pleasure, the wit and the joy in humanity that Tremain brings to every page do what literature, at its best, should do: connect us, as E.M. Forester famously exhorted."-- Stacey D'Erasmo, Los Angeles Times, Like Amy Bloom's recent novel, Away, or Ha Jin's A Free Life, Whitbread Award winner Tremain has written a worthy addition to the growing body of work centered on the loneliness and frustration of the immigrant experience., It's not difficult to see why author Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize--a prestigious British fiction award--for her latest novel, The Road Home . From page one, Tremain plunges readers deep into the journey of Lev, an immigrant from an unnamed Eastern European country...An unexpected, poignant story., A classic work by the gifted Tremain....She has the art of finding the improbable graces in human connection., "This is a powerfully imagined story and a wonderful feat of emotional empathy, told with great warmth and humor."-- Judges' citation, the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, "A potent tale of a grieving widower from an unnamed eastern European country....Tremain paints vivid and multihued characters."-- Rayyan Al-Shawaf , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "At once a mystery story, a psychological exploration and a novel ofideas. That it should succeed and provoke on these various levels payshigh tribute to Tremain's intellect." -- Claire Messud (on "The Way I Found Her") , New York Times Book Review, "A classic work by the gifted Tremain....She has the art of finding the improbable graces in human connection."-- Sylvia Brownrigg, The Guardian (UK), "Memorable. . .The journey through alienation toward self-respect and prosperity runs on a well-traveled road, but Tremain's vivid prose and attention to detail make this incarnation both convincing and pleasurable." -- Susan Grimm , The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), "Tremain elevates the subject beyond its outlines by making Lev not a statistic or caricature or the standard-bearer of a trend but simply a man-fully embodied...A less disciplined and agile author might have been tempted to ease Lev's transition from daydreamer to doer....But Rose Tremain is in the business of inventing not so much fantasies as alternate realities."-- Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review, "The pleasure, the wit and the joy in humanity that Tremain brings to every page do what literature, at its best, should do: connect us, as E.M. Forester famously exhorted."-- Stacey D'Erasmo , Los Angeles Times, Wise, timely and emotionally satisfying, Rose Tremain's characters are immediately recognisable as is her London seen through the eyes of her Eastern European migrant., "A gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life."-- Robert Allen Papinchak , Seattle Times, "A gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life."-- Robert Allen Papinchak, Seattle Times, Tremain's protagonists are often faced with trials that have a fabled quality...and her latest novel is no exception...At once timeless and bitingly contemporary, this novel explores the life now lived by millions--when one's hope lies in one country and one's heart in another., "A magical novel...which offers great beauty, great ugliness, great wisdom." -- Penelope Fitzgerald (on "Music and Silence") , The Spectator, Like Amy Bloom's recent novel, Away , or Ha Jin's A Free Life , Whitbread Award winner Tremain has written a worthy addition to the growing body of work centered on the loneliness and frustration of the immigrant experience., "Tremain elevates the subject beyond its outlines by making Lev not a statistic or caricature or the standard-bearer of a trend but simply a man-fully embodied...A less disciplined and agile author might have been tempted to ease Lev's transition from daydreamer to doer....But Rose Tremain is in the business of inventing not so much fantasies as alternate realities."-- Liesl Schillinger , New York Times Book Review, "The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia....As always, Tremain's writing has a delicious, crunchy precision."-- Edward Marriott, The Observer (UK), "...[Tremain} proves herself again magically capable of animating a character from the inside out, illuminating the heart of one modern exile with an extraordinary degree of love, imagination and insight. The pleasure, the wit and the joy in humanity that Tremain brings to every page do what literature, at its best, should do: connect us, as E.M. Forster famously exhorted. Particularly, connect us to the invisible, the lonely, the barely seen."-- Stacey D'Erasmo, Los Angeles Times, "Tremain transforms this episodic road story into a gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life."-- Robert Allen Papinchak , Seattle Times, This is a powerfully imagined story and a wonderful feat of emotional empathy, told with great warmth and humor., "Why do I love Rose Tremain? It's not just the clarity of her prose, the liveliness of her plots, the precision of her settings, or the depth of her characters. I love Tremain because she is so compassionate. Her novels exemplify this moral quality, even as they excel at all the others."-- Susan Balee, The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Wise, timely and emotionally satisfying, Rose Tremain's characters are immediately recognisable as is herLondon seen through the eyes of her Eastern European migrant."-- Judges' citation, the 2008 Costa Book Awards, This is a finely balanced novel of urgent humanity... The Road Home should keep you gripped...and fraught with anxious sympathy., Tremain elevates the subject beyond its outlines by making Lev not a statistic or caricature or the standard-bearer of a trend but simply a man-fully embodied...A less disciplined and agile author might have been tempted to ease Lev's transition from daydreamer to doer....But Rose Tremain is in the business of inventing not so much fantasies as alternate realities., This is a finely balanced novel of urgent humanity...The Road Homeshould keep you gripped...and fraught with anxious sympathy., This is a finely balanced novel of urgent humanity...The Road Home should keep you gripped...and fraught with anxious sympathy., "Rose Tremain brings the full tone and range of her novelist's imagination to bear on Lev, giving him, besides his enduring and endearing grief, humour, a romantic temperament, a genius for intimate male friendship and a poets' eye for images."-- Kate Clanchy, Times Literary Supplement (UK), "Rose Tremain so fully inhabits her characters, she's a virtual stowaway in their lives...Tremain's 10th novel is a moving, utterly absorbing portrait of deracination, hope, loss, longing and fortitude...Her writing is so good, she makes us hear English anew, from the viewpoint of someone not fully fluent."-- Heller McAlpin , San Francisco Chronicle, "Tremain simultaneously constructs a subtly detailed mosaic ofpersonal and cultural distinctions and conflicts.... Rudi is an ingenious comic counterpart to Candide's annoyingly optimisticmentor Pangloss, and the novel dances into vigorous life whenever he takes holdof it. Still, Lev offers readers ample reason to get lost in this immenselylikable novel's many pleasures. One of the best from the versatile Tremain, whokeeps on challenging herself, and rewarding readers."-- Kirkus, "Rose Tremain so fully inhabits her characters, she's a virtual stowaway in their lives...Tremain's 10th novel is a moving, utterly absorbing portrait of deracination, hope, loss, longing and fortitude...Her writing is so good, she makes us hear English anew, from the viewpoint of someone not fully fluent."-- Heller McAlpin, San Francisco Chronicle, "Tremain transforms this episodic road story into a gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life." -- Robert Allen Papinchak , Seattle Times, "THE ROAD HOME is imaginative, funny, touching, and impossible to put down." -- Fanny Blake, author of Woman at Home , -, "An immigrant's tale and an outsider's journey of self-discovery. The concept is nothing new, but Tremain's prose saves Lev from cliché and produces an unexpected, poignant story... this British novel can remind any American reader of the loneliness and hope of the immigrant experience."-- Allecia Vermillion , Chicago Sun-Times, "At once a mystery story, a psychological exploration and a novel ofideas. That it should succeed and provoke on these various levels payshigh tribute to Tremain's intellect."-- Claire Messud (on "The Way I Found Her") , New York Times Book Review, If life truly is all about the journey, then we're fortunate to have Rose Tremain as our guide...The Road Home is the work of a generous author, a guide who reveals the strangeness in the place we once imagined was home., "It's not difficult to see why author Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize--a prestigious British fiction award--for her latest novel, The Road Home . From page one, Tremain plunges readers deep into the journey of Lev, an immigrant from an unnamed Eastern European country...An unexpected, poignant story."-- Allecia Vermillion, Chicago Sun Times, "If life truly is all about the journey, then we're fortunate to have Rose Tremain as our guide...The Road Home is the work of a generous author, a guide who reveals the strangeness in the place we once imagined was home." -- Ellen Kanner , Miami Herald, "Wise, timely and emotionally satisfying, Rose Tremain's characters are immediately recognisable as is her London seen through the eyes of her Eastern European migrant."-- Judges' citation, the 2008 Costa Book Awards, "A potent tale of a grieving widower from an unnamed eastern European country....Tremain paints vivid and multihued characters." -- Rayyan Al-Shawaf , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The pleasure, the wit and the joy in humanity that Tremain brings to every page do what literature, at its best, should do: connect us, as E.M. Forester famously exhorted., "The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia....As always, Tremain's writing has a delicious, crunchy precision."-- Edward Marriott , The Observer (UK), "If life truly is all about the journey, then we're fortunate to have Rose Tremain as our guide...The Road Home is the work of a generous author, a guide who reveals the strangeness in the place we once imagined was home."-- Ellen Kanner, Miami Herald, "A classic work by the gifted Tremain....She has the art of finding the improbable graces in human connection." -- Sylvia Brownrigg , The Guardian (UK), "Why do I love Rose Tremain? It's not just the clarity of her prose, the liveliness of her plots, the precision of her settings, or the depth of her characters. I love Tremain because she is so compassionate. Her novels exemplify this moral quality, even as they excel at all the others."-- Susan Balee , The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Tremain's protagonists are often faced with trials that have a fabled quality...and her latest novel is no exception...At once timeless and bitingly contemporary, this novel explores the life now lived by millions--when one's hope lies in one country and one's heart in another." -- New Yorker, The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia....As always, Tremain's writing has a delicious, crunchy precision., "...[Tremain} proves herself again magically capable of animating a character from the inside out, illuminating the heart of one modern exile with an extraordinary degree of love, imagination and insight. The pleasure, the wit and the joy in humanity that Tremain brings to every page do what literature, at its best, should do: connect us, as E.M. Forster famously exhorted. Particularly, connect us to the invisible, the lonely, the barely seen." -- Stacey D'Erasmo , Los Angeles Times, Why do I love Rose Tremain? It's not just the clarity of her prose, the liveliness of her plots, the precision of her settings, or the depth of her characters. I love Tremain because she is so compassionate. Her novels exemplify this moral quality, even as they excel at all the others., "Tremain simultaneously constructs a subtly detailed mosaic ofpersonal and cultural distinctions and conflicts.... Rudi is an ingenious comic counterpart to Candide's annoyingly optimisticmentor Pangloss, and the novel dances into vigorous life whenever he takes holdof it. Still, Lev offers readers ample reason to get lost in this immenselylikable novel's many pleasures. One of the best from the versatile Tremain, whokeeps on challenging herself, and rewarding readers." -- Kirkus, "It's not difficult to see why author Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize--a prestigious British fiction award--for her latest novel, The Road Home . From page one, Tremain plunges readers deep into the journey of Lev, an immigrant from an unnamed Eastern European country...An unexpected, poignant story."-- Allecia Vermillion , Chicago Sun Times, Tremain simultaneously constructs a subtly detailed mosaic ofpersonal and cultural distinctions and conflicts.... Rudi is an ingenious comic counterpart to Candide's annoyingly optimisticmentor Pangloss, and the novel dances into vigorous life whenever he takes holdof it. Still, Lev offers readers ample reason to get lost in this immenselylikable novel's many pleasures. One of the best from the versatile Tremain, whokeeps on challenging herself, and rewarding readers., A gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life., "Memorable. . .The journey through alienation toward self-respect and prosperity runs on a well-traveled road, but Tremain's vivid prose and attention to detail make this incarnation both convincing and pleasurable."-- Susan Grimm , The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), "This is a finely balanced novel of urgent humanity... The Road Home should keep you gripped...and fraught with anxious sympathy."-- The Sunday Telegraph (UK), "At once a mystery story, a psychological exploration and a novel ofideas. That it should succeed and provoke on these various levels payshigh tribute to Tremain's intellect."-- Claire Messud (on "The Way I Found Her"), New York Times Book Review, "Like Amy Bloom's recent novel, Away , or Ha Jin's A Free Life , Whitbread Award winner Tremain has written a worthy addition to the growing body of work centered on the loneliness and frustration of the immigrant experience."-- Library Journal, A potent tale of a grieving widower from an unnamed eastern European country....Tremain paints vivid and multihued characters., "Tremain's protagonists are often faced with trials that have a fabled quality...and her latest novel is no exception...At once timeless and bitingly contemporary, this novel explores the life now lived by millions--when one's hope lies in one country and one's heart in another."-- New Yorker, "A sort of anti-Candide...Lev manages to be both a symbol of migrant workers and a fully developed character in his own right...an engaging, enjoyable, and informative read." -- Booklist, It's not difficult to see why author Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize--a prestigious British fiction award--for her latest novel,The Road Home. From page one, Tremain plunges readers deep into the journey of Lev, an immigrant from an unnamed Eastern European country...An unexpected, poignant story., "A classic work by the gifted Tremain....She has the art of finding the improbable graces in human connection."-- Sylvia Brownrigg , The Guardian (UK), At once a mystery story, a psychological exploration and a novel ofideas. That it should succeed and provoke on these various levels payshigh tribute to Tremain's intellect., Rose Tremain brings the full tone and range of her novelist's imagination to bear on Lev, giving him, besides his enduring and endearing grief, humour, a romantic temperament, a genius for intimate male friendship and a poets' eye for images., An immigrant's tale and an outsider's journey of self-discovery. The concept is nothing new, but Tremain's prose saves Lev from cliché and produces an unexpected, poignant story... this British novel can remind any American reader of the loneliness and hope of the immigrant experience., The Road Homeis thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia....As always, Tremain's writing has a delicious, crunchy precision., "Tremain transforms this episodic road story into a gem of a novel, driven by a memorable character whose caring and ambition move him from a difficult personal situation and damaging historical past toward a positive new life."-- Robert Allen Papinchak, Seattle Times, ...[Tremain} proves herself again magically capable of animating a character from the inside out, illuminating the heart of one modern exile with an extraordinary degree of love, imagination and insight. The pleasure, the wit and the joy in humanity that Tremain brings to every page do what literature, at its best, should do: connect us, as E.M. Forster famously exhorted. Particularly, connect us to the invisible, the lonely, the barely seen., "This is a finely balanced novel of urgent humanity...The Road Home should keep you gripped...and fraught with anxious sympathy."-- The Sunday Telegraph (UK), An immigrant's tale and an outsider's journey of self-discovery. The concept is nothing new, but Tremain's prose saves Lev from clich and produces an unexpected, poignant story... this British novel can remind any American reader of the loneliness and hope of the immigrant experience., "A potent tale of a grieving widower from an unnamed eastern European country....Tremain paints vivid and multihued characters."-- Rayyan Al-Shawaf, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Memorable. . .The journey through alienation toward self-respect and prosperity runs on a well-traveled road, but Tremain's vivid prose and attention to detail make this incarnation both convincing and pleasurable., A sort of anti-Candide...Lev manages to be both a symbol of migrant workers and a fully developed character in his own right...an engaging, enjoyable, and informative read., "...[Tremain} proves herself again magically capable of animating a character from the inside out, illuminating the heart of one modern exile with an extraordinary degree of love, imagination and insight. The pleasure, the wit and the joy in humanity that Tremain brings to every page do what literature, at its best, should do: connect us, as E.M. Forster famously exhorted. Particularly, connect us to the invisible, the lonely, the barely seen."-- Stacey D'Erasmo , Los Angeles Times, "A magical novel...which offers great beauty, great ugliness, great wisdom."-- Penelope Fitzgerald (on "Music and Silence") , The Spectator, Wise, timely and emotionally satisfying, Rose Tremain's characters are immediately recognisable as is herLondonseen through the eyes of her Eastern European migrant., "THE ROAD HOME is imaginative, funny, touching, and impossible to put down."-- Fanny Blake, author of Woman at Home
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