The Road Home

Rose Tremain · 2007 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Lev, a widowed man from an unnamed eastern European country, takes a coach to London to earn money for his small daughter and his mother back home. He works in a restaurant kitchen and shares a flat in the new Europe. It won the 2008 Orange Prize.

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