I was given this book by an Italian friend who, knowing my constant desire to improve my Italian, thought it would help (as well as prove enjoyable). It is a short story, set during the Second World War. In this publication, the original English version runs down the right-facing page while the Italian translation runs down the left. It is a brilliant way to read a story in a foreign language with ease, especially one like this with a lot of specialised vocabulary. There was no need to constantl I was given this book by an Italian friend who, knowing my constant desire to improve my Italian, thought it would help (as well as prove enjoyable). It is a short story, set during the Second World War. In this publication, the original English version runs down the right-facing page while the Italian translation runs down the left.

In these regards, Defender Of The Faith, by Philip Roth, can be considered an influential short story. Published in 1959, it is one of six short stories contained in the book Goodbye Columbus, Roth¶s first major publication.

It is a brilliant way to read a story in a foreign language with ease, especially one like this with a lot of specialised vocabulary. There was no need to constantly look up words in a dictionary: a quick glance across the page gave an immediate translation and, best of all, the flow of the story was not impeded. I may even have learnt some new words(though I'm not sure about that.) But I did very much enjoy the story which is cleverly crafted with excellent characterisation.

Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960's National Book Award), cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically-acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels began with The Ghost Writer in 1979, and in Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist.

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He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960's National Book Award), cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically-acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels began with The Ghost Writer in 1979, and include American Pastoral (1997) (winner of the Pulitzer Prize). In May 2011, he won the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in fiction.

“In May of 1945, only a few weeks after the fighting had ended in Europe, I was rotated back to the States, where I spent the remainder of the war with a training company at Camp Crowder, Missouri. Along with the rest of the Ninth Army, I had been racing across Germany so swiftly during the late winter and spring that when I boarded the plane, I couldn't believe its destination lay to the west. My mind might inform me otherwise, but there was an inertia of the spirit that told me we were flying to a new front, where we would disembark and continue our push eastward-eastward until we'd circled the globe, marching through villages along whose twisting, cobbled streets crowds of the enemy would watch us take possession of what, up till then, they'd considered their own. I had changed enough in two years not to mind the trembling of old people, the crying of the very young, the uncertainty and fear in the eyes of the once arrogant. I had been fortunate enough to develop an infantryman's heart, which, like his feet, at first aches and swells but finally grows horny enough for him to travel the weirdest paths without feeling a thing.” —.