Philip Roth - Engedd el

Philip Roth's book, Nemes Anna, originally published in 1962, is being published in Hungarian for the first time.

Gabe Wallach is discharged from the military, and when his mother dies, he begins his life by tearing old threads and weaving new ones. To his father's chagrin, he moves from New York to distant Chicago to teach, but his main occupation is rather the mapping of human characters and relationships. In painting a diverse collection of colleagues, friends, girlfriends and the figures related to them, in the whirlwind of sometimes ordinary, sometimes adventurous, sometimes tragic and sometimes comical events, Gabe actually tries to find himself and place himself in the America of the second half of the 1950s. Is he an upstanding young citizen or a spoiled gentleman, selfless or foolish, sane or cowardly, self-sacrificing or a loser?

Although when reading Philip Roth's first novel, written at the age of twenty-seven, today's reader is also confronted with how much the world has changed in sixty years, but mostly he encounters the eternal dilemmas of life - as in all good and lasting novels.

"An amazingly mature first novel." - James Atlas

"A rich, eventful book, dark, sad, but somehow amusing even during the most hopeless moments." — Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's

"Roth has the best eye for fine detail since Sinclair Lewis." - Stanley Edgar Hyman