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Editorial Review:
'Tremain writes...prose that makes me want to give up writing as she's matchless. It's a beautiful and timeless work'
`Rose Tremain touches a raw contemporary nerve in this well-judged tale'
`A novel at one rich and strange'
`A powerful yet understated glimpse into the lives of economic migrants.'
WINNER OF THE 2008 ORANGE BROADBAND PRIZE FOR FICTION Rose Tremain's hugely enjoyable new novel is the up-to-the-minute story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe. A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.
`a strikingly alert and humane profile of migrant labour...wild and beautiful and full of woe'
'This is a finely balanced novel of urgent humanity...The Road Home should keep you gripped...and fraught with anxious sympathy...'
'...filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor'
`...some beautifully affecting writing about nostalgia and a father's pain. Their reunion made me cry'
`...a classic work by the gifted Tremain'
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Beautifully written but predictable tale Fascinating to read so many rave reviews. I read this on a very long train journey and if I hadn't been stuck there would probably have abandoned it. Rose Tremain has a wonderful prose style and she organizes her plots really well with lots of development, but the novel didn't grip me at all. Characters were boring, situations obvious (mobile phone going off during concert, stereotypical rich/poor London, even more stereotypical run-down anonymous ex-eastern bloc country etc), the ending warm & cosy.... more info
Wonderful book I just loved this book, first of hers I hv read. Easy to navigate but dealing with quite complex topics, the ugliness of which Tremain does not shy away from. The reader warms to Lev as he encounters a Britain so different from the one he expected, as he struggles with his anger, despair and ultimately shares a hopeful and optimistic ending. Is it a coincidence that the more sympathetic characters could also be called immigrants as well? I came away slightly ashamed of our increasingly rude and self... more info
Superbly written, perceptive novel Having been recommended to me on good authority and having heard of the reputation of (but never read) Rose Tremain, I had high expectations of this novel. Well it didn't disappoint me, in fact it exceeded those expectations. Other reviewers have gone into detail here on the plot, suffice to say that Lev journeys to the UK from Eastern Europe to look for work and earn money to send home and improve the lives of his daughter and mother, his wife having died tragically young. He overcomes difficulties,... more info
A THING OF BEAUTY "THE ROAD HOME", by Rose Tremain
I read this novel in two days.I simply couldn't leave it. I underlined sentences,words...Rose Tremain gives us the unforgettable portrait of Lev, an immigrant from somewhere in east Europe who arrives in London thinking that most English people look something like Alec Guinness in "Bridge on the River Kwai"...It is a portrait completely different from the stereotypes of immigrants we find in most books dealing with this subject. It is utterly moving, funny, extremely... more info
