Operation Shylock - A Confession, Ausgezeichnet: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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| Verlag | Vintage, New York |
| Auflage | 1994 |
| Seiten | 400 |
| Format | 20 cm |
| Gewicht | 410 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Vintage International |
| ISBN-10 | 0679750290 |
| EAN | 9780679750291 |
| Bestell-Nr | 67975029EA |
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.
Rezension:
"One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius...a living master." -Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books
"The uncontested master of comic irony." -Time magazine
"A devilish book, nervously exuding a kind of delirious brilliance like sweat at every pore, and madly comic." -Alfred Kazin
"A brilliant novel of ideas...Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -Ted Solotaroff, The Nation