The human stain

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Sinopse

t is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town a distinguished classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser.Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who comes upon Silk's secret, and sets out to unearth his former buried life, piecing the biographical fragments back together. This is against backdrop of seismic shifts in American history, which take on real, human urgency as Zuckerman discovers more and more about Silk's past and his futile search for renewal and regeneration.

Participantes

Autor: Philip Roth

Autor

PHILIP ROTH

Philip Roth nasceu em 1933, em Newark, Nova Jersey (Estados Unidos). Um dos maiores escritores americanos, escreveu mais de trinta livros. Recebeu, em 1998, a Medalha Nacional das Artes na Casa Branca e, em 2002, conquistou a mais elevada premiação concedida pela Academia Americana de Artes e Letras, a Medalha de Ouro de Ficção. Em 2005, Roth tornou-se o terceiro escritor vivo a ter sua obra publicada numa edição abrangente e definitiva da Library of America. Assíduo em premiações literárias, já ganhou o Pulitzer e o Man Booker Prize, além da Gold Medal in Fiction, a mais alta distinção da American Academy of Arts and Letters. Faleceu em 2018.