Homo Faber

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.