Operation Shylock a confession Author: Philip Roth
	Book Information Publisher: Simon Schuster Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 2 ISBN-13: 9780671703769 - ISBN-10: 0671703765 Publication Date: 1/1/1993 Pages: 398

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.