Operation Shylock
Author | : Philip Roth |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2022-09-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780593685020 |
ISBN-13 | : 0593685024 |
Rating | : 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Time Magazine Best American Novel (1993) In this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator. With excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a cast of characters that includes Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.