Forfatter fødeår: 1933-2018
Det kunne være sket, og hvad var der sket, hvis flyverhelten og antisemitten Charles Lindbergh havde vundet det amerikanske præsidentvalg i 1940? Hvad ville det f.eks. have betydet... Læs mere
Den jødisk-amerikanske forfatter Philip Roths (f. 1933) personlige beretning om faderen Herman Roths (1901-1989) to sidste leveår og død som følge af en hjernesvulst, herunder om det nære forhold far og søn imellem.
Tells an universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. In this novel, the fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his... Læs mere
I det ækvatoriale Newarks lammende varme raser en skrækindjagende epidemi. Den truer New Jerseys børn med lemlæstelse, lammelse, livslang invaliditet – sågar død. Dette er det foruroligende og... Læs mere
Det kunne være sket, og hvad var der sket, hvis flyverhelten og antisemitten Charles Lindbergh havde vundet det amerikanske præsidentvalg i 1940? Hvad ville det f.eks. have betydet... Læs mere
Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets he... Læs mere
'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He... Læs mere
Året er 1951. Vi er i Amerika, og Koreakrigen er gået ind i sit andet år. Marcus Messner, den unge lovlydige dreng fra Newark, New Jersey, skal begynde som andenårsstuderende på det... Læs mere
As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime.
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invades every Jewish... Læs mere
Soon to be an HBO Miniseries from executive producer David Simon ';A masterwork of counterfactual history.'The New Yorker
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionThe Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies.