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The Road Home starts out rather sad. The protagonist, Lev, leaves his Russian village for London to find work after losing his job at the local sawmill. He's 43 and needs work so he can send money home to his mother for both her and his his young daughter. Lev is recent widower who lost his wife to leukemia at the age of 36. He's understandably depressed, leaving all that is precious to him behind in order migrate to London to find work. He keeps in touch with his good friend Rudi back home by cell phone in this post 9/11 time frame.

While traveling across Europe by bus, he meets Lydia who is also facing trying times. Lev's English is poor and he is unfamiliar with some customs. Trying to stretch the little money he has, he initially sleeps in doorways until Lydia helps him to find a room in a rundown place. The house is owned by an Irish plumber who drinks a bit too much and is also missing his family who have recently moved out. Lydia also helps Lev find a job, first distributing leaflets, then as a dishwasher and later as a cook. Still depressed and missing his wife and family, he meets Sophie, a tattooed vixen who is more than willing to cheer up poor Lev, but there is more to Sophie than meets the eye. She is a compassionate young woman who spends her free time volunteering at Ferndale Heights, a home for the elderly.

The focus of the story is on Lev and how he tries to navigate life in an unfamiliar country after having suffered tremendous personal loss. The story is interesting enough, but it was a little to quiet for me. Although some readers may view the ending as convenient, to me it was evident early on how this story might end, I just wasn't aware of the specifics. The Road Home is a story about loss and about loneliness. It's about picking yourself up when life throws you a curve ball and about doing what you need to do in order to move on. The author manages to capture all of this very well without making it too sad. For me, the best past of this novel was the multi-dimensional characters, each flawed in some way, yet so real and so memorable.

I liked the audiobook because of Juliet Stevenson, who is an amazing narrator. She is so skilled at capturing so many different accents and timbres. While listening it felt like the story was choppy, and "choppy" it was for a reason -- this was an "abridged" version, which made me kind of mad. I didn't realize libraries even purchased "abridged" audiobooks. Had I realized this earlier on, I would have read the print edition which I'm sure I would have enjoyed a bit more.

3.5/5 stars


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The Road Home Rose Tremain 9780701177935 Books Reviews

`The Road Home' is a beautifully written immigrant story -- and then some. Rose Tremain writes with such an adroit hand that the reader actually senses almost everything Lev [the `protagonist'] feels. One feels his initial despair, his sense of dislocation, his exhaustion, and his grief over his wife's premature death, his hopes and dreams for the future -- and so much more.

Lev's observations, upon first seeing the citizens of London, made me aware of `the supersizing of the West.' Tremain's characterizations are finely nuanced, and her sense of place is so acute that one actually feels as if they are in London. I loved how this author depicts the relationship between Lev and his friend Rudi. The story of Rudi's Tchevi [auto] is often comical.

In many respects this is a thought-provoking read since Tremain's characters appear, for the most part, to be extraordinarily kind to strangers `in need.' So many characters here help Lev. This book demonstrates the catch-22 of bureaucratic red tape for immigrants seeking governmental assistance.

One comes away from the book with a keener sense of displacement felt by immigrants, their longing for the familiar while at the same time trying to acclimate to a different culture, as well as its language. Any difficulties Lev encounters, in his attempts to adjust, are handled [by Tremain] with great poise. The characters in `The Road Home' are multi-dimensional. I very much enjoyed [and appreciated] the `new arrivals' need to reconnect with their countrymen.

The characters resonate and the book has a strong, rich theme. The one caveat this reader has is how Tremain chose her ending. However, some readers may rejoice in this.
Rose Tremain writes a fantastic novel about the immigrant experience. She follows one year in the life of Lev, an immigrant from some unknown Eastern European country, to London, as he deals with the death of his wife, the loss of his job at home due to overlogging, separation from his young daughter and his lifelong best friend, arriving in a country with almost no money and few marketable skills, and more.

This is a fast-moving feel-good novel, although Lev's life is really depressing most of the time. Yet he has the will to triumph over almost everything, making him a very likely hero. He has a philosophical bent that is enhanced when he learns to enjoy Hamlet. He has remarkable drive and initiative. You really want him to win against all of the odds stacked against him.

I really enjoy Rose Tremain, and can see why she has won so many awards for her writing. He is practical and down-to-earth, but also optimistic about the human condition. Her style is so natural that you almost feel like the novelist has disappeared into the characters and plot, so you don't even notice her skill and brilliance.
The Road Home starts out rather sad. The protagonist, Lev, leaves his Russian village for London to find work after losing his job at the local sawmill. He's 43 and needs work so he can send money home to his mother for both her and his his young daughter. Lev is recent widower who lost his wife to leukemia at the age of 36. He's understandably depressed, leaving all that is precious to him behind in order migrate to London to find work. He keeps in touch with his good friend Rudi back home by cell phone in this post 9/11 time frame.

While traveling across Europe by bus, he meets Lydia who is also facing trying times. Lev's English is poor and he is unfamiliar with some customs. Trying to stretch the little money he has, he initially sleeps in doorways until Lydia helps him to find a room in a rundown place. The house is owned by an Irish plumber who drinks a bit too much and is also missing his family who have recently moved out. Lydia also helps Lev find a job, first distributing leaflets, then as a dishwasher and later as a cook. Still depressed and missing his wife and family, he meets Sophie, a tattooed vixen who is more than willing to cheer up poor Lev, but there is more to Sophie than meets the eye. She is a compassionate young woman who spends her free time volunteering at Ferndale Heights, a home for the elderly.

The focus of the story is on Lev and how he tries to navigate life in an unfamiliar country after having suffered tremendous personal loss. The story is interesting enough, but it was a little to quiet for me. Although some readers may view the ending as convenient, to me it was evident early on how this story might end, I just wasn't aware of the specifics. The Road Home is a story about loss and about loneliness. It's about picking yourself up when life throws you a curve ball and about doing what you need to do in order to move on. The author manages to capture all of this very well without making it too sad. For me, the best past of this novel was the multi-dimensional characters, each flawed in some way, yet so real and so memorable.

I liked the audiobook because of Juliet Stevenson, who is an amazing narrator. She is so skilled at capturing so many different accents and timbres. While listening it felt like the story was choppy, and "choppy" it was for a reason -- this was an "abridged" version, which made me kind of mad. I didn't realize libraries even purchased "abridged" audiobooks. Had I realized this earlier on, I would have read the print edition which I'm sure I would have enjoyed a bit more.

3.5/5 stars