# Homo Faber

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- Book: [Homo Faber](https://www.bookquiver.com/max-frisch/homo-faber) ([Homo Faber.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/max-frisch/homo-faber.md))
- Authors: [Max Frisch](https://www.bookquiver.com/max-frisch)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-866-9
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2006-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The novel 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, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life.