Philip Roth is an acknowledged classic of American literature. He is the only writer who has received the William Faulkner Prize three times; he is also a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of many other prestigious awards, and his works are regularly nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Even the most absurd and insignificant coincidence can give a tragic turn to a person’s fate. Thus, the young Mark’s chain of mistakes—seemingly unnoticed at first—throws him into the bloody chaos of the Korean War. A string of errors and the boiling anger in him.