SS officer Julius Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before an official concert. Unsure which among the decorative statues is Mendelssohn... Zobraziť viac
Svěže napsaný a intelektuálně důvtipný příběh Švéda Levova, vynikajícího univerzitního sportovce, který dospívá v poválečných letech všeobecné hospodářské prosperity... Zobraziť viac
Peter Tarnopol, Rothovo alter ego, sepisuje v lesní samotě příběhy ze svého pohnutého života. V povídce „Rozverné mládí“, jež do jisté míry připomíná Rothovu novelu... Zobraziť viac
Readers who have followed Philip Roth's hero and alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman through five previous novels will be happy to see him again in American Pastoral, a novel that finds Nathan attending a high school reunion in Newark, New Jersey... Zobraziť viac
Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old attachments, is hungrily seeking new ones. He's drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate in literature, and to Libby - Paul's moody... Zobraziť viac
The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. Around them baseball itself seems to be collapsing... Zobraziť viac
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide inthe1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh publicly blamed ... Zobraziť viac
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media,... Zobraziť viac
It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New... Zobraziť viac
Philip Roth is the voice of our times. In a sequence of intimate conversations with some of the most influential and insightful writers of the twentieth century, Roth explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work and that... Zobraziť viac
