Rose Tremain's prodigious talents as a prose writer are on full display in The Road Home, and her novel never loses sight of what is truly important in the lives we lead.

Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn't belong, body or soul, to his new country-but can he really go home again? Even the more educated Lydia travels, hoping for interviews. Rose Tremains novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home). However constricted his life in England remains, he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker, and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious friend Rudi, who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Land Lydia is on a journey of discovery however, it has no certain outcome for either of them. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys-he has found a friend and shelter.

After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has already lost his family. but trapped in the hedonistic world of 1920s Havana. We see the road Lev travels through his eyes, and we. In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev makes his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. A stunning novel about two Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to the U.S. He struggles with the mysterious rituals of Englishness, and the fashions and fads of the London scene.

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