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.
Important places
Athens (366)Avignon (41)
Caracas (17)
New York (7,400)
Counties
New York (8,072)Regions
Paris (3,057)Vaucluse (56)
Distrito Capital (18)
Berlin (904)
New York (9,763)
Attiki (392)
Countries
France (7,260)Germany (3,818)
Greece (1,635)
United States (64,950)
Venezuela (186)
Other geographical areas
Cordillera Oriental (15)Andes (345)
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (466)
South America (2,214)
Balkans (2,385)
Ile-de-France (3,166)
Southern Europe (7,123)
North Atlantic Ocean (8,812)