Patrimony
Philip Roth is certainly one of my favourite US writers. He and Gore Vidal have done a good job of analysing recent US history in literary form. This book is not a novel however but more an eulogy for his father. Sharp (self) observation and the love of a son for his father are well balanced, in this book-long farewell. I read it in Dutch, as I couldn't find an english original in the local bookstore.