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Lev is an eastern european immigrant to the UK, believing that he can live on £20 a week. He meets Lydia on the way and th...more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 5 1 false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 08:09:02 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 08:17:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2626618 0099478463 9780099478461 62 15 The Road Home 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2626618.The_Road_Home 5 2 false Mon Oct 20 07:00:42 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 09:15:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 4 1 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 02 14:31:52 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 14:34:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2626618 0099478463 9780099478461 62 15 The Road Home 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2626618.The_Road_Home 3 2 false Sun Nov 02 07:25:15 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 18 09:04:51 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 07:25:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 4 0 false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 09:24:19 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 10:16:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 4 1 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 09 10:32:02 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 10:40:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 5 1 false Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 07 09:02:40 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 09:03:29 -0700 2009
The journey begins with Lev's bus journey from his home in Poland to the loneliness of impersonal London. Lev is into his early forties, has recently lost his wife to cancer and believes that the only way that he can support his very you...more...]]> 2626619 0316002615 9780316002615 20 10 The Road Home 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2626619.The_Road_Home 0 1 false Thu Feb 05 09:59:13 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:59:13 -0800 2009 Rose Tremain, "phenomenally adept at slipping into skins very different from her own" (Los Angeles Times), persuasively explores the contemporary immigrant experience through the eyes of a middle-aged, Eastern European man. Lev is not a caricature or a stereotype—none of Tremain's charac...

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I was less convinced by Tremain's satire on the London arts scene. These cha...more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 4 0 false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 16:10:20 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 15:50:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 2 0 false Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 10:05:36 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 07:23:48 -0800 2009
Like so many others, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. He is a tiny part of a vast diaspora that is changing British societ...
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Lev, a widower who leaves behind his mother and young daughter in an econ...more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 3 0 false Tue Nov 25 01:04:42 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 01:22:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 0 0 false Thu May 28 09:14:29 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 09:15:11 -0700 2009
In the story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe, Rose Tremain has written a wise and witty book about the contemporary migrant experience.

On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the ...more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 5 0 false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 08:50:41 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 15:15:11 -0700 2009 it is a simultaneously feel good and melancholy tale of an east european economic migrant lev and his experiences in contemporary england and his return home afterwards .
it is about ordinary not very successfuk people trying to make their ...more...]]> 2626618 0099478463 9780099478461 62 15 The Road Home 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2626618.The_Road_Home 5 3 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 02:21:34 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 14:55:31 -0700 2009 2626618 0099478463 9780099478461 62 15 The Road Home 3.81 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2626618.The_Road_Home 3 0 false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 05:44:42 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 12:30:40 -0700 2009 Music & Silence. This is a good read, with a topical subject: a Polish man who has to come to find work in the UK to support his mother and daughter back in Poland. I liked...more...]]> 1271104 0701177934 9780701177935 340 117 The Road Home 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182398069m/1271104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home 4 0 false Mon Jan 19 05:02:30 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 05:11:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2626618