by Philip Roth · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482649450
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«Nèmesi» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by La Magrana in paperback (208 pages, in Catalan).
In 1944, a polio epidemic ravages Newark and threatens the children. Bucky Cantor, a young javelin thrower kept out of the war by his poor eyesight, works as a playground supervisor and watches the disease strike his boys. Between the city and a camp in the Poconos, the novel shows his fight against the plague and explores fear, guilt, and decisions.
Part of the Les ales esteses collection, with translation from English to Catalan by Xavier Pàmies. Published on 10 March 2011.
Work for readers of literary fiction and admirers of Philip Roth's late period.
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.
