by Philip Roth · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483463949
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«Patrimonio: Una historia verdadera» is Philip Roth's autobiographical account of his father's illness, published by DEBOLSILLO in 2007 in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
The writer Philip Roth reconstructs the struggle of his father, Herman Roth, an eighty-six-year-old retired insurance agent, against a brain tumor. The account addresses the relationship between father and son, the vulnerability of love and the fear of death, portraying Herman's tenacity and commitment to life until the end.
The book belongs to the publisher's Contemporánea collection and is the Spanish translation of «Patrimony: A True Story», an original work published in 1991 by Philip Roth.
For readers of autobiographical narrative and memoirs seeking an intimate story about the father-son relationship and illness.
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.
