by Philip Roth · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467244700
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«Némesis» is the literary fiction novel by writer Philip Roth, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover, with 195 pages in Spanish.
In the summer of 1944, a polio epidemic terrorizes Newark (New Jersey) and its families. Bucky Cantor, a young physical education teacher, is torn between enlisting in the war and protecting the neighborhood children. As the disease advances, his decisions raise questions about guilt, fate and the fragility of life.
This Spanish edition, with dust jacket, was translated by Jordi Fibla and published in July 2011; the original title is «Nemesis».
For readers of literary and historical fiction and for those who appreciate novels with a moral backdrop set in the United States of the mid-twentieth century.
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.
