Operation Shylock: A Confession

By Philip Roth

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Philip Roth's 1993 novel, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, is narrated by a writer named Philip Roth who travels to Jerusalem in 1988. There he confronts an impostor who uses his name to promote "Diasporism," a plan for Israel's Jews to return to Europe. Caught up in the trial of John Demjanjuk and in Israeli intelligence plots, he loses control of his own identity.

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• Barack Obama: “Some of the great books by Jewish authors like Philip Roth or Saul Bellow, they are steeped with this sense of being an outsider, longing to get in, not sure what you're giving up — what you're willing to give up and what you're not willing to give up.”