Author:Nicholas Shakespeare,William Gregory
A young Englishman goes to Cold War Leipzig for a weekend with a group of student actors and, during his brief visit beyond the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is just beginning to be aware of the horrendous way her country is governed. Her misery touches him, her love excites him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends 19 years suppressing the strength of his feelings for the girl he knew only by her nickname "Snowleg" - until one day, with Germany by now united, he decides to go back and look for her. But who is she now, how will his having once abandoned her have affected her life, and how will he find her? Snowleg is the story of more than one sundered love, of both broken dreams and damaged families. The central figure of the novel, who grows up as an Englishman, chooses to live in Berlin. He is a senior doctor; but his life is a startling mixture of romantic, of erratic, of dissolute behaviour. For long years he nurses the secret of Snowleg and his longing for a love he had the chance to grasp but failed to take.
The Human Stain pulses with the strengths that make Roth a prime contender for the status of the most impressive novelist now writing in and about America
—— Sunday TimesAn extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand'
—— Sunday TelegraphOne of his very best... There are passages of such sustained brilliance here that I found myself going over them again and again in gaping disbelief. An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand
—— Sunday TelegraphA novel so furious in its telling, with a plot so intricate in its construction that it is infused with a kind of diabolic joy. A masterpiece
—— Mail on Sunday[A] tender, shocking and incendiary story on the failure of the American dream refracted through the prism of race
—— Arifa Akbar , GuardianOne of the most beautiful books I've ever read
—— RedRoth remains as edgy, as furious, as funny, and as dangerous as he was forty years ago
—— New York Review of BooksI Married a Communist proves that, following the success of Sabbath's Theater and American Pastoral, he remains on extraordinary form... Wonderful storytelling and characterisation
—— Guardian, Books of the YearThe McCarthy era has faded, eerily, into nostalgia, just as Capitol Hill produces its own 90s version of witch-hunt and communal obsession with enemies of the state, and perversions of justice perpetrated in democracy's name. Roth avoids nostalgia by making his narrator an active, if unwitting participant in the original drama, caught up in political currents and counter-currents he did not comprehend at the time
—— Lisa JardineRoth’s conflicted, many-layered characters give this work memorable force
—— Guardian
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