Human Stain

The year is 1998... While the White House and US politics are shaken by President Clinton's scandals and confessions, the calm before the storm is about to end in a small American town. As the curtain of mystery in the life of Professor Coleman, whose career was destroyed as a result of an investigation that was started against him by labeling him as a racist and no different from a witch hunt, is revealed, surprising and frightening facts emerge.
The Human Stain, which reflects the social and individual aspects of the events that taint a person and turn his life upside down in the suffocating atmosphere of 1990s America, where conflicting moral understandings and ideological divisions manifest themselves with public accusations and purification rituals, is simply a gripping and shocking novel. While the fictional novel hero and writer Nathan Zuckerman, whom we know from his previous novels, investigates Coleman's secrets buried in the past, Philip Roth reaches into the subconscious of the US society in his usual wonderful style.
Combining productivity and mastery, Philip Roth is one of the most important writers of contemporary American literature with his novels that have left their mark on the last twenty-five years. Not only has he been deemed worthy of at least one of the prestigious literary awards given in his country with every book he has written since the 60s, he has also been honored with the title of "the master chronicler of 20th Century America" and most recently, he was deemed worthy of the Man Booker Prize. The Human Stain is the clearest indication of how much he deserves this title. In this last part of his journey, which started with Pastoral America and continued with his novel I Married a Communist, Roth covers the 1990s and wanders into the farthest corners of the American soul.



Number of Pages: 368

Print Year: 2011


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Detail Publications

First Edition Year: 2011

Number of Pages: 368

Language: Turkish