Homo Faber
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‘Homo Faber’ tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in a rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security – his plane makes an emergency landing in a Mexican desert, his friend hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of concussion.
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The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security – an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life.
| Weight | 0.156 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.7 × 13 × 1.3 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 217 |
| Language | German |
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| Dewey | 833.912 (edition:22) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
