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The Road Home: From the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Road Home: From the Sunday Times bestselling author

by RoseTremain (Author)

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Synopsis

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daugher and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British: their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 480
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12 Jun 2008
ISBN 10: 0099478463
ISBN 13: 9780099478461
Book Overview: WINNER OF THE 2008 ORANGE BROADBAND PRIZE FOR FICTION Rose Tremain's hugely enjoyable new novel is the up-to-the-minute story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe. A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.
 Prizes: Winner of Good Housekeeping Book Awards: Best Fiction 2008 and Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008. Shortlisted for Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009 and Costa Novel Award 2007.

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several 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) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk