Bøger af Henry Roth

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant. David is hated by his father, but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. This novel interweaves the love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity.

'The Ur-novel at the heart of American literature - Mercy of a Rude Stream is a towering achievement' Junot Diaz 'Henry Roth has only two peers in American-English Jewish fiction, Nathanael West and Philip Roth' Harold BloomThe second novel in the internationally acclaimed six-volume sequence which began with MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM

This "landmark of the American literary century" (Boston Globe) is finally published as one volume, appearing with a brilliant new introduction.

"His early novel Call It Sleep was his Ulysses. His late work An American Type is his Grapes of Wrath."-Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times