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Tremain is attempting to hook us in and keep our interest for the remaining story. It is important to consider how this opening achieves this purpose. A sort of anti-Candide...Lev manages to be both a symbol of migrant workers and a fully developed character in his own right...an engaging, enjoyable, and informative read." - Booklist. P.384 Rudi now rubbed his eyes and it was as though he was shining them up, because when he turned, Lev could see them sparkling."

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In a fairy tale experience, Lev dreams of opening his own restaurant in his home town - which is no under threat from a dam being built. Eventually, the actions of his good deads (helping out at an old peoples home) get him in a position where he can earn enough money to return and live his dream. This book was disappointing on so many levels. There were the niggly little things that bugged me throughout, which a good editor should have eliminated. For instance, Tremain went to GREAT lengths to avoid giving Lev a specific country of origin. Every time he met someone 'from his country' (which happened pretty often) you could see Tremain doing an elaborate dance of avoidance around THE COUNTRY WHICH MUST NOT BE NAMED. Awkward. Discuss the ways in which the transformations in Lev, after his experiences in England, make his homecoming both challenging and productive. By the time the happy ending rolled around, I wasn't rooting for the main character anymore. It would be one thing if we were meant to feel conflicted by Lev's behavior, but the book makes it pretty clear that Lev is supposed to be the hero. Flawed, maybe, but in an "aren't we all" sort of way. Unfortunately, I lost all empathy the minute he described the woman he potentially assaulted as "his animal" with "irresistible greed for the male..."This is an extract from a much longer novel. Tremain won an ‘Orange Broadband Prize’ for ‘The Road Home’. Tremain goes on to criticise the selfishness of the upper class in the novel, using the eyes of Lev to achieve this. author’spurpose Brownrigg, Sylvia (9 June 2007). "No place like home | Books". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 April 2022 . Retrieved 7 November 2008. As is the experience of the majority of the immigrant population, Lev is sceptical of his destination and is emotionally attached to his own country, which he thinks will continue to be the place where his heart is. The constant need for a cigarette, while obviously a result of his addiction, is also reflective of his underlying anxiety as people who are dependent on a substance usually feel the need to consume them during stressful situations. The momentary comfort of the cigarette is not only the sole source of comfort that he can hope for in this daunting journey, but it also provides him with a sense of familiarity, being one of the few remaining physical connections to his life in Auror. This novel tells the story of Lev who leaves his home country and like so many others is heading west. His wife, Marina, has died of leukaemia, his five-year-old daughter, Maya, is living with her grandmother and 42-year-old Lev, a former lumberyard worker is travelling to London to find work.

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Yes, he is the stereotypical hard worker, starting off as the humblest kitchen pot washer in London's fine dining kitchens, which we can tell straightaway will go on to better things, but there are also some truly nasty aspects to the man, like the rape of his former girlfriend - although here Tremain cannot hold steady, and Lev is so regretful and self-conscious of his misdeed so as to make it hardly believable in the first place.

He finds life in London confusing and frightening, and the tiny amount of money he’s brought with him certainly isn’t going to sustain him, but he’s determined, and slowly but surely, and with the help and kindness of those he meets along the way, he makes a kind of life for himself. This extract is the start of the novel. Lev is on a bus from Eastern Europe to London. He is alone in the beginning but then he starts talking to Lydia, who is sat next to him. Lev tells us about his unemployment and that he decided to go to London to support his family. context He is a haunted character, passionate and selfish and very human. He doesn't act as he should sometimes, specially where women are concerned, and his flaws are exactly what make him such a believable character. So imperfect but so dear to the reader. British author Rose Tremain’s novel The Road Home (2007) follows Eastern European migrant Lev as he tries to make a life for himself in London. Tremain is one of Britain’s most prominent living novelists, best known for 1989’s Restoration. The Road Home was awarded the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction. Within the exam, you will be asked to compare one text to another of your choice. Here are 3 example essays that you could practice. You must consider the use of language and structure in your answer:

The Road Home by Rose Tremain | Book Club Discussion The Road Home by Rose Tremain | Book Club Discussion

My book of the year 2008. You cannot argue with literature that makes you laugh, cry and change the way that you think of the world. And this book does all three. Lev arrives in a dusty, midsummer city full of hope but things, however, do not start well. He suddenly realises that the money that he had saved to live off until he found work is nowhere near enough. In fact his first night in the city, spent in an Earl's Court B&B costs him what he had expected to last him a week. The next day he gets a 'job' delivering leaflets for a kebab shop, for which he's paid 2p a leaflet and sleeps on the street The two characters are particularly contrasting. Lydia aspires to be a ‘translator’, whilst Lev is just hopeful for work.Curious, baffled, angry, honourable, rash and passionate, Lev is a tremendous creation, inhabited by his begetter to a depth that passes beyond empathy and into identification." - The Independent. Rose Tremain has said that she was advised against making The Road Home“too glum.” How does she use humor to lighten Lev’s trials? Which scenes did you find particularly funny? London is nothing like Lev imagined it would be before he came. He finds few friends and allies among British people. But he is helped and befriended by other migrants, recent and not so recent. He falls for a young, plump kitchen worker in an upmarket restaurant where he does the washing up. She speaks of 'emporia'! Really? I doubt she'd know the word, and if she did, she'd say 'emporiums'. There is something astonishingly cloth-eared in the dialogue, as if all the accents and dialect Tremain gives her characters came out of a handbook. She is staying with friends, who agree to shelter Lev. They help Lev find a room in an apartment. His new landlord, Christy Slane, is another immigrant—this time from Ireland—and a plumber. Christy has lost his wife and can rarely see his daughter. He is sliding into alcoholism. Christy and Lev soon become firm friends.

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Both Lev and his new friend Christy have lost loved ones. How does Rose Tremain emphasize their shared emotional state in chapter 12 when they take a visit to the seaside with Christy’s young daughter? What else do Lev and Christy have in common that indicates that their friendship is a solid one?

Migration – The chapter revolves around the experience of migration, with the protagonist, Lev, migrating to England in search of employment and better economic prospects. He is, however, grieving the loss of his home and family, constantly plagued by the memories of what he has left behind. Simultaneously, he is also anxious about being alienated from his destination, England. The Road Home was positively received by critics. Lesley McDowell, in a review for The Independent, wrote that Tremain consistently and accurately captured the isolation of Lev and other immigrants. [1] Liesl Schillinger of The New York Times reviewed the book saying, "A less disciplined and agile author might have been tempted to ease Lev’s transition from daydreamer to doer. Or she might have jollied Lev into a toque at London’s River Café and set Rudi up as a chauffeur on Belisha Road. But Rose Tremain is in the business of inventing not so much fantasies as alternate realities. In “The Road Home,” she lets Lev in on her secret: “Don’t think about Auror down there in the darkness. Don’t think about the past.” The present is also a work of imagination". [2] The Guardian review said, "Tremain clearly enjoys observing wealthy Londoners, their vapidity, their selfishness, through Lev's eyes - and also more cheerfully enjoys describing the busy workings of a kitchen in a high-end restaurant. She recounts in succulent detail several of the meals Lev produces as he begins to hone his own culinary skills. Strangely, it is not until near the end that we are given the dishes particular to Lev's country (rabbit with juniper berries, seaweed ravioli)". [3] Lydia paused in her knitting. She held the 'jumper' up to her chest, to see how much further she had to go before casting off for the shoulder seam. She said: 'Now I'm interested in that journey. Did you reach your home?' Informal language is language that is not perceived to be grammatically correct, whilst formal language is the standard form.

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