'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned
by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks.
He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and
hope. Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede's daughter, Merry, commits an
outlandishly savage act of political terrorism and the Levov family is
plunged into mayhem. This is the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that
confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers of the
twentieth century and that still profoundly resonates today. 'A profound
and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last
fifty years' Financial Times 'A tragedy of classical proportions...a
magnificent novel' The Times