Counterlife

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.

Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the miind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London's West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.

Contravietea este despre oameni care isi realizeaza visele de reinnoire si evadare, unii dintre ei mergand pana acolo incat isi risca viata pentru a-si modifica destinele aparent ireversibile. Oriunde s-ar putea gasi, personajele The Counterlife sunt tentate fara incetare de perspectiva unei existente alternative care le poate inversa soarta. Iluminarea acestor vieti in tranzitie si ghidarea noastra prin peisajele evocatoare ale cartii, familiare si straine, este miindul romancierul Nathan Zuckerman.