While on a trip to Paris to report on the installation of turbines in Venezuela for UNESCO, the title character meets and beds a young girl named Sabeth, who turns out to be the un-aborted daughter of his former lover, Hannah.  
The protagonist of this novel wrote his dissertation on Maxwell's demon, and laments that he only exists for the benefit of shoe polishers in Havana.  He nearly misses a flight because he feels "unrasiert," a feeling that he can never explain to his girlfriend Ivy, but through a bizarre coincidence makes the ill-fated Super-Constellation flight and sits next to Herbert, the brother of the man who he thought had performed an abortion on his girlfriend after she declined to move to Baghdad with him.  While on a trip to Paris to report on the installation of turbines in Venezuela for UNESCO, the title character meets and beds a young girl named Sabeth, who turns out to be the un-aborted daughter of his former lover, Hannah.  In 1991, Volker Schl?ndorff made this novel into the movie Voyager.  FTP, name this work about an engineer named Walter, a novel by Max Frisch whose title means "man the maker."
The protagonist of this novel wrote his dissertation on Maxwell's demon, and laments that he only exists for the benefit of shoe polishers in Havana.  
Homo Faber