by Philip Roth · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478714070
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«Complot contra els Estats Units» is the alternate history novel by Philip Roth, published by La Magrana in paperback (384 pages, in Catalan).
In an alternate reality, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 election and, from the presidency, negotiates an agreement with Nazi Germany. The novel follows a Jewish family in Newark and their community as official antisemitism spreads and the fear of the worst settles into their lives.
The Catalan translation is by Xavier Pàmies Giménez. The book is part of the Les ales esteses collection (number 188). It was originally published as The Plot Against America (2004).
A read for those interested in alternate history, American politics, and antisemitism in contemporary literary fiction.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
