by Max Frisch (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 02 Nov 2006
ISBN 10: 0141188669
ISBN 13: 9780141188669