num_pages: 400
description: WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral— a fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous"One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius." — The New York Review of BooksIn this 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 wild cast of characters, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.
language: English
title: Operation Shylock
titlecomplete: Operation Shylock
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Israel, Literary Fiction, Novels, Jewish, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 4399
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Vintage