
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- First published
- 2007
- Length
- ≈ 432 pages
- Reading time
- 11–15 hours
- ISBN
- 0316002623
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
Lev is a middle-aged, recently widowed man from Auror, a village in an unnamed eastern European country. When the sawmill where he works closes, he travels to London to earn money to send home to his mother, his five-year-old daughter, Maya, and his best friend. His first job is in a kebab shop; later he washes dishes at a five-star restaurant. Along the way he meets Lydia, a translator from his own country, Christy, a divorced Irish plumber, Sophie, a young chef, and Ruby, a rich old woman.
Source: The Road Home (novel)
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