Season of bad will
7/10
I borrowed ‘A Season In The West’ on the recommendation of my mother-in-law [insert predictable joke here], who suggested I might find in it interesting parallels with Rose Tremain’s ‘The Road Home‘ which deals with similar themes. Both books concentrate on the migrant experience of London life, ‘The Road Home’ reflecting the [...]
Book Review: Piers Paul Read - A Season In The West
October 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Fiction
Tags:capitalism·Communism·Czech·dissident·immigrant·Iron Curtain·London·money·Piers Paul Read
The Road Home - Rose Tremain
August 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Fiction
The road to salvation
7/10
Rose Tremain’s Orange Prize-winning ‘The Road Home‘ is a compassionate if somewhat conventional novel about a migrant worker from Eastern Europe who seeks a job in England to provide money for his family. Opening with a quote from The Grapes of Wrath, ‘The Road Home’ is a contemporary take on the Steinbeck [...]
Tags:art·chef·Contemporary Britain·corruption·cosmopolitanism·Eatern Europe·economic migration·EU·Europe·European Union·globalisation·immigrant·John Steinbeck·London·Orange Broadband Prize·Rose Tremain·theatre·widower