★Philip Roth's late masterpiece, winner of the 2005 Society of American Historians "Outstanding American Historical Novel Award" ★The world is collectively writing a new novel, and Roth skillfully controls the tragedy and comedy elements in this process.
In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature "American Pastoral". In 1998, Ross was awarded the National Medal of Arts at the White House. In 2002, he won the highest honor awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters - the Gold Medal for Fiction. Previous winners of this award include famous writers such as John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow. Roth won the National Book Award twice for his debut novels "Goodbye, Columbus" in 1960 and "Sabas's Theater" in 1996. In addition, he has won the American Book Critics Circle Award twice and the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. Roth's "The Plot Against America" was hailed as "the outstanding historical novel with American themes in 2003-2004". The novel won the Society of American Historians Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award for Best Book of the Year in 2005. Roth also became the first writer to win the W. H. Smith Literary Award twice in its 46-year history.
In 2005, Roth became the third living author to have an authoritative edition of his complete works published by American Library. Since then, Roth has won the PEN/Nabokov Award (2006) and the PEN/Bellow Award (2007). In 2011, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal at the White House; in the same year, he became the fourth recipient of the Booker International Literature Prize. In 2012, Rose won Spain's highest honor, the Prince of Asturias Award; in 2013, he won the highest honor issued by the French government, the French Grand Knight of the Order of Merit.
"The Plot Against America" is a shocking "counterfactual novel" that presents a semi-fictional alternative history of the United States. Philip Roth uses real details, reasonable situations, and a child's perspective to tell the story of Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous flying hero and fanatical isolationist, who overwhelmingly defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. From then on, every Jewish American family lived in the shadow of fear. During the anti-Semitic government of Lindbergh, ordinary Jewish families living in Newark experienced years of horrific violence, and millions of Jewish families were torn apart...
This post-9/11 work relives a dark period that has been gradually forgotten by the United States, dramatically showing the lingering fear that grips the United States.
Reader comments
This book is very interesting! It fictionalizes the history of Lindbergh being elected president and makes me think of various possibilities that may exist in reality. The plot in the book is very attractive, especially the description of the life of a Jewish family during that special period, which resonated with me. I also have two children, and I can understand the worry about the safety of my children. This book is not only a novel, but also made me think more deeply about history and human nature. Recommended to you, worth reading!
This book is very interesting! It fictionalizes the history of Lindbergh being elected president and makes me think of various possibilities that may exist in reality. The plot in the book is very attractive, especially the description of the life of a Jewish family during that special period, which resonated with me. I also have two children, and I can understand the worry about the safety of my children. This book is not only a novel, but also made me think more deeply about history and human nature. Recommended to you, worth reading!