by Philip Roth · LITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439723332
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«Némesis» is the historical novel by Philip Roth, published by Literatura Random House in hardback (224 pages, in Spanish).
In the summer of 1944, a polio epidemic ravages Newark. Bucky Cantor, in charge of outdoor activities at a school, watches the disease strike the children while lamenting that he cannot enlist due to his poor eyesight. Philip Roth portrays the fear, anger, and grief of the community and reflects on how decisions shape our lives.
Translation by Jordi Fibla; originally published in English as “Nemesis” in 2010.
Will appeal to readers of historical and literary fiction, as well as followers of Philip Roth's narrative.
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.
