by Philip Roth · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420443249
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In 'The Human Stain', Philip Roth introduces us to Coleman Silk, a university dean whose reputation is ruined after an unfortunate expression. Amid the Lewinsky scandal, Silk faces accusations of racism and misogyny, while hiding a vital secret that could disarm his detractors. This novel explores themes of identity, prejudice, and the fragility of the American dream in 20th-century American society.
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.
