Deep friendship with fellow outsiders, and the glimmerings of a new career, are no compensation for being poor and exiled, a status which Tremain highlights with persistence and compassion. In a novel at once rich and strange, we follow Lev's agonising progress through exploitation, random kindness and continuing grief at the loss of his young wife. Soon he becomes infatuated with Sophie, a fellow worker. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2022. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Rose Tremain's fiction has won the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music and Silence) and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Restoration) and the.

Soon he is sleeping rough, until Lydia, a sophisticated travelling companion from the journey over, sets him up with a job washing dishes in a gourmet restaurant and a room in Tufnell Park. The Road Home: From the Sunday Times bestselling author eBook : Tremain, Rose: .uk. London is teeming, sarcastic, inhospitable Lev's English is basic. He travels to London to seek work, leaving behind daughter Maya, his mother and his outlandish, irrepressible best friend Rudi. He is recently widowed, and the sawmill that employed him has closed. It can also be irritating, disappointing, terrifying. And the sight of all this rainbow heat could often wake in Lev a feeling of joy as absolute as anything he'd ever felt. It can teach, challenge, comfort and inspire. The Road Home Rose Tremain P.406 'In Lev's kitchen - his adored domain - the gas flames burned an obedient blue, leaped to yellow on sudden, triumphant command the salamanders glowed and shimmered to violent vulcan red. Lev is 43 and from a small village in eastern Europe. Some of us always knew it: reading frees the mind from its conversation with the insistent self. R ose Tremain tackles the uncomfortable subject of economic migrancy in this year's Orange Prize winner.

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