Homo Faber (Harvest Book)

by Max Frisch (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1971

  $18.58

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $12.49

  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.