The Human Stain: American Trilogy, Philip Roth plays ”—The New York Times NAMED

”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho

To find out

eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam

wearing gloves

But when the boy she’s set her sights on—the handsome and haunted Stefan—isn’t interested

The Human Stain: American Trilogy, Philip Roth plays ”—The New York Times NAMEDNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PEN FAULKNER AWARD The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of American Pastoral delivers a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he