Tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in 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 Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 244
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780141188669
ISBN 10: 0141188669