In the novel "The Writer's Ghost," Philip Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman makes his first appearance: a brilliant, mad, controversial, and unique hero of Roth's nine magnificent novels. The story begins in 1956 and spans nearly half a century.
Just one night in a stranger's house, an unexpected encounter with the mysterious beauty Amy Bellette - and Zuckerman, balancing on the edge of reality and fiction, suspects that Amy might very well be Anne Frank…
The mystery of Amy's identity leaves too many questions. The author's virtuoso mastery draws us into an exhilarating adventure. In search of answers, we flip through chapter after chapter, book after book. We will find the solutions together with Zuckerman only on the pages of Roth's final story about the writer and his ghosts, when we recognize the incomprehensible and enchanting Amy Bellette in an elderly, sick woman…
The most compositionally flawless and brilliantly written of Roth's novels. - Village Voice
Another testament to the fact that in literature, Roth is capable of everything. As a storyteller, he is unparalleled: both the plot and the way Roth develops it are mesmerizing. - Washington Post
