{"product_id":"9780141188669-retail-homo-faber","title":"Homo Faber","description":"Reissued in Modern Classics in the run up to the 50th anniversary of its first publication\n\nThe 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.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49001237446875,"sku":"9780141188669-RETAIL","price":28.04,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/702e2c18-d4c0-4e9e-87f1-f9812754a34d.jpg?v=1784744772","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780141188669-retail-homo-faber","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}