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-13: | 9780141188669 |
| ISBN-10: | 0141188669 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Adult |
| Publication date: | 2006-11-02 |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Product dimensions: | Height: 7.71652 Inches, Length: 5.03936 Inches, Weight: 0.3968320716 Pounds, Width: 0.70866 Inches |
| Author: | Max Frisch |
| Language: | en |
| Binding: | Paperback |
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