- One of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times \ \
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- “A touching allegory from a brilliant novelist about our turbulent contemporary moment.” \ \
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- The Wall Street Journal \ \
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- "Disturbing, funny, and sad at the same time... it is a book that shows how the spirit of the age can shape, and even destroy, the life of the individual." \ \
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- The New York Times \ \
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- “The Best Novel He's Written.” \ \
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- Times Literary Supplement \ \ \*In 1998, the year America was swept by a wave of curiosity and curiosity over the impeachment of its president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, was forced into retirement after his colleagues accused him of racism. The accusation was false, but the truth behind Silk would have astounded even his fiercest critics.Coleman Silk hides a secret, which has been kept secret for fifty years from his wife, four children, colleagues and friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It was Zuckerman who discovered Silk's secret, and set out to reconstruct the biography of this eminent and honest man, who had been held in high esteem as a teacher for nearly his entire life, and to understand how this brilliantly constructed life had collapsed.
