u003cbu003e'Swede' Levov is living the American dream.u003c/bu003e 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years' u003ciu003eFinancial Timesu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel' u003ciu003eThe Timesu003c/iu003e
