PHILIP ROTH
?Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life sustained by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope.
Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede's bountiful American luck deserts him.
The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society.
Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart.
Philip Roth (1933) és autor de vint-i-tres obres, entre les quals Goodbye, columbus (National Book Award 1960), Sabbath's Theater (National Book Award 1995) i The Counterlife (National Book Critic Circle Award 1987).
La marca de l'home,
una novel·la punyent, colpidora i apassionant, és incomparable amb cap altra de les que Philip Roth ha escrit, i constitueix una digna continuació d'American Pastoral (Premi Pulitzer 1998) i I Married a Communist.
"Un prodigi d'empatia imaginativa, generositat i tacte" Kirbus Reviews
"Roth fa una feina bellament matissada... de vegades divertida i d'altres trista." The New York Times
