The Counterlife

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * A stunning novel 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.