The Road Home

"Timeless and bitingly contemporary, this novel explores the life now lived by millions—when one's hope lies in one country and one's heart in another." —The New Yorker

In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. He finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family. However constricted his ...