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The Prague Orgy

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"Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth." --The New York Times Book Review

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.

The Prague Orgy completes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman bound. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780063508439
  • ISBN-10: 0063508435
  • Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
  • Publish Date: November 2026
  • Page Count: 96

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