by Philip Roth · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482649955
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«Pastoral americana» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by La Magrana in paperback (464 pages, in Catalan).
The novel follows Seymour «Swede» Levov, a legendary Newark athlete who embodies the American dream: married to a former Miss New Jersey, he inherits his father's glove factory and lives in idyllic Old Rimrock. In 1968, the radicalization of his daughter Merry, capable of an act of political terrorism, shatters that idyll and drags him into a crisis.
Catalan edition published in 2010, translated by Xavier Pàmies, in the Les ales esteses collection (no. 296). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998.
Suitable for readers of literary fiction and contemporary novels, with an interest in American narrative and family dramas.
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.
