Novel
Nueva York, en la actualidad. Leo, un viejo inmigrante judío polaco, lúdico y divertido, vive recordando a “la mujer más amada en el mundo”, el gran amor de su vida. En el otro extremo de la ciudad, Alma, con el espíritu de una adolescente llena de pasión, descubre el amor por primera vez. Nada parece unir a Leo y Alma. Y sin embargo… desde la Polonia de los años 30 al Central Park de hoy en día, el manuscrito de un libro, “La historia del amor”, viajará a través del tiempo y de los continentes para unir sus destinos.
Herself
Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus, put him on the map, and 10 years later his hilarious, ribald best-seller, Portnoy’s Complaint, gave rise to the first of many Roth-related controversies in which Judaism, sex, the role of women, and the parent-child relationship would take center stage. In candid interviews, the Pulitzer Prize-winner discusses his distinctly unliterary upbringing in Newark, NJ, his admiration for Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud, and how Zuckerman may or may not be his alter-ego. Nathan Englander, Mia Farrow, Jonathan Franzen, and Martin Garbus are among those who talk about the man and his writing. Franzen in particular praises Roth for “how brave he must have been to have methodically offended everybody and to have exposed parts of himself no one had ever exposed before.”
