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Tremain gives individual texture to economic migration and reinvention.
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The Road Home
Rose Tremain2008 selection · Literary fiction
The Road Home
Widower Lev leaves Eastern Europe for London to earn money for his family. Low-paid work, friendship, humiliation, and culinary ambition shape his future.
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You like humane social novels about work and second chances.
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