by Philip Roth · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420429663
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American Pastoral, written by Philip Roth, is a novel that explores the disillusionment of the American dream through the life of Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a successful businessman and former star athlete. The story unfolds in prosperous post-war America, but Swede's life crumbles when his daughter Merry becomes a radical activist and commits an act of terrorism. The novel examines themes of idealism, disillusionment, and the complexity of family relationships in a context of social and political upheaval.
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.
