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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. -- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Susan Grimm
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
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. -- Chicago Sun Times Allecia Vermillion
An immigrant's tale and an outsider's journey of self-discovery. The concept is nothing new, but Tremain's prose saves Lev from cliche and produces an unexpected, poignant story... this British novel can remind any American reader of the loneliness and hope of the immigrant experience. -- Chicago Sun-Times Allecia Vermillion
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. -- Seattle Times Robert Allen Papinchak
Timely and moving. -- TimeOut Sophie Fels
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. -- Miami Herald Ellen Kanner
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. -- San Francisco Chronicle Heller McAlpin
Tremain simultaneously constructs a subtly detailed mosaic of personal and cultural distinctions and conflicts.... Rudi is an ingenious comic counterpart to Candide's annoyingly optimistic mentor Pangloss, and the novel dances into vigorous life whenever he takes hold of it. Still, Lev offers readers ample reason to get lost in this immensely likable novel's many pleasures. One of the best from the versatile Tremain, who keeps on challenging herself, and rewarding readers. -- Kirkus
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
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
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 (01/01/2008)
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
At once a mystery story, a psychological exploration and a novel of ideas. That it should succeed and provoke on these various levels pays high tribute to Tremain's intellect. -- New York Times Book Review Claire Messud (on The Way I Found Her )
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. -- Seattle Times Robert Allen Papinchak
. ..[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. -- Los Angeles Times Stacey D'Erasmo
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