by Rose Tremain · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099478461
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«The Road Home» is Rose Tremain's novel about immigration and identity, published by Vintage in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Lev, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, arrives in Britain looking for work to support his mother and daughter. The novel follows his attempts to adapt to life in London, amid the hostility of the streets, the closed pubs and the British obsession with fame, while glimpsing the possibility of a new career and a new sense of belonging. A story that tackles contemporary migration with irony and humanity.
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2008. Vintage paperback edition, published on June 12, 2008, 320 pages.
Recommended for readers interested in literary and contemporary fiction novels about migration, identity and urban life in London.
Dame Rosemary Jane Tremain is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. She as been the recipient of many prizes for her writing, including the Giles Cooper Award (1984), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992), the Whitbread Award (1999) and the Orange Prize (2008).
