num_pages: 219
description: Frisch's novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in a 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 dense 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?.
language: English
title: Homo Faber
titlecomplete: Homo Faber
characters: Walter Faber, Herbert Hencke, Sabeth, Joachim Hencke, Hanna Piper
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, German Literature, Read For School, Germany, Roman, Literature, Novels, School
ratings_count: 25139
places: New York City, New York, Palenque, Zurich, Campeche, Houston, Texas, Tamaulipas, Düsseldorf, Guatemala, Corinth, Havana, Athens
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd