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.
| ISBN: | 9780141188669 |
| Publication date: | 2nd November 2006 |
| Author: | Max Frisch |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 217 pages |
| Series: | Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Fiction in translation |