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The Road Home [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

by Rose Tremain (Author)
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  • Audio CD: 6 pages
  • Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks (2 Feb 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 9626349468
  • ISBN-13: 978-9626349465
  • Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 309,994 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'..bravely imaginative, deeply moving, suprising, invigorating and satisfying' --Independent<br /><br />'Tremain is a magnificent story-teller' --Independent on Sunday<br /><br />Novels about economic migrants don't have to be as desolate as Steinbeck or as farcical as Marina Lewycka. Somewhere between 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'Two Caravans' there's room for a story like this one about Lev, whose job at the sawmill in a small eastern European village has gone...You know you're in safe hands with a writer such as Tremain - this won the 2008 Orange Prize - and a reader as sympathetic as Juliet Stevenson. --Sue Arnold, The Road Home<br /><br />Rose Tremain's novel tells the touching story of Lev, an Eastern European economic migrant, who travels to London to seek his fortune after his wife dies and he loses his job. From his dispossessed perspective Britain seems a terrible place - dirty, greedy and harsh. But there is redemption too, and Lev eventually finds the road home that he has been seeking. Juliet Stevenson gives a graceful reading of this melancholy story with a happy ending. --Jane Shilling, Daily Mail

You know you're in safe hands with a writer as professional as Rose Tremain - this won the 2008 Orange prize - and a reader as sympathetic as Juliet Stevenson. --Sue Arnold, The Guardian


Sunday Telegraphy, Sally Cousins

`Rose Tremain touches a raw contemporary nerve in this well-judged tale'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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254 of 261 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A superb new novel from Rose Tremain , 11 Jun 2007
This review is from: The Road Home (Hardcover)
I have always admired the award-winning author Rose Tremain, but her new novel THE ROAD HOME is the one that has given me the most pleasure. The tale of Lev, a middle aged Polish migrant worker, who comes to London after losing both his job and his wife, is both moving and funny. It's a marvellous take on modern Britain where foreign workers on scant wages toil away in the kitchens of posh restaurants in London and asparagus fields in Norfolk, whilst at the other end of the scale celebrity culture rules. Lev is a good man and a heroic hard worker. As he struggles to earn enough money to send home to his mother who looks after his little girl, he is helped by unexpected acts of kindness from a cast of diverse and entirely uncliched characters. Beautifully written, THE ROAD HOME is an uplifting read and highly recommended.
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355 of 367 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Another fine book from a true original, 22 Jul 2007
By Graeme H (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Road Home (Hardcover)
Rose Tremain can, it seems, do just about anything. Each one of her books is utterly different from the last, each creates a detailed and authentic world for her characters and their quests.

In The Road Home, Tremain tells the story of Lev, an Eastern European migrant worker who has left his village and travelled to England so that he can finance a better life for his mother and daugther. He takes with him his grief for his dead wife. There is an almost fairytale-like quality to Lev's chance encounters and where they lead him, although, that said, they also feel natural and possible; Tremain has always been good on the essential randomness of experience.

Lev's London is awash with money, celebrity and complacency - an ugly picture of the way we live now - but there is nothing polemical about the book. The world Tremain creates feels real, and she allows her characters to negotiate it, and make their compromises with it, in a way that is both convincing and very poignant. There is also a rich vein of humour that runs through the book, much of which comes from the stories about and conversations with Lev's friend Rudi, who has stayed back in the village.

The 1983 Granta list of best young British novelists famously includes: McEwan, Rushdie, Pat Barker, Amis, Graham Swift. Tremain was among this group but in my view remains a little underrated. Both Music & Silence and Restoration have found critical acclaim and broad readerships, but The Colour - a fine, fine book - did less well, and The Way I Found Her is a book far less well known than it should be. Almost alone amongst that stellar group of 1983, she hasn't yet put a foot wrong.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best novels I've read this year, 21 Jul 2008
By Amicie (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Road Home (Paperback)
I enjoyed this novel so much that when I was three quarters of the way through I went back to the beginning and started again! Tremain is an excellent writer. Her prose is full of colourful images and she has an eye for the quirky, the absurd, which makes for an entertaining read. In this tale the line between tragedy and comedy is finely walked. Lev is a beguiling hero - in many ways brave and admirable, but also flawed. His story is sad, sometimes brutal, but always handled with compassion. This novel could easily be read as a treatise on the plight of the immigrant worker - but it is more complex than that. Ultimately it is about the irrepressiblity of the human spirit and I loved it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The road home
Rose Tremain is an excellent writer who holds your attention from the very beginning of the book.
This is the story of a Polish man who come to England in the hope of... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Z. M. Snarey

1.0 out of 5 stars Highly Offensive
As an Estern European, I found this book highly offensive. The author went in the fields of Norfolk to do her research on immigrants (I wonder how offended those people were,... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Good at first but then dissapointing.
The book drew me in at first with some interesting characters, but then I quickly got tired of the crude stereotypes of immigrants and foreigners. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Liked but did not love
After losing his job and his wife, Lev leaves his little daughter with his mother and sets off for London to find work and support his family. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Meghan Kawka

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I had not read any of Rose Tremain's books. This is really beautifully written and obviously well researched. I could not put it down! Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Baeutifully written & very moving
Really enjoyed it. It was literally in that rare group of books I couldn't put down: stayed up very late reading, skipped chores to finish it. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable read

I was recommended this book by people in a reading circle and was quite surprised when I started reading. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mary Fergusson

4.0 out of 5 stars Uplifting but not at all corny
Having just read `Restoration' I was keen to explore some more of Rose Tremain's novels. I like the way she plays with the reader's sympathies for the main character. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. H. Fitzgerald

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