Operation Shylock A Confession

<p><b>WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD </b></p><p><b>“One of Roth’s grand inventions…. [He is] a comic genius.” —<i>The New York Review of Books</i></b></p><p><b>Wildly suspenseful and unexpectedly hilarious, <i>Operation Shylock</i> is the daring offspring of a propulsive spy story, a meditation on identity politics, an auto-fictional reckoning, and a confrontation with a volatile, nightmarish time in history.</b></p><p>In 1988, Philip Roth arrives in a Jerusalem thrown into chaos. The First Intifada has begun, and the country is equally enraptured and disturbed by the groundbreaking, televised trial of infamous Nazi camp guard, John Demjanjuk.</p><p>Amidst the mayhem, Roth encounters a man who has set out to spread “Diasporism,” a strange new ideology that advocates for a reverse-exodus of Ashkenazi Jews. Even more bizarre: This activist is also named Philip Roth, looks a lot like Philip Roth, and claims he is a celebrity author who has written all the same books as Philip Roth…</p><p>Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator.</p>