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Operation Shylock: A Confession is a 1993 novel by American novelist Philip Roth. Plot [ edit ] The novel follows narrator "Philip Roth" on a journey to Israel , where he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk and becomes involved in an intelligence mission—the "Operation Shylock" of the title.
- Philip Roth
- 1993
Jan 1, 2001 · Operation Shylock: A Confession. Philip Roth. 3.77. 4,630 ratings384 reviews. 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.
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Dec 16, 2009 · Suspenseful, hilarious, hugely impassioned, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession.
Dec 26, 2012 · Roth decides to stop him—even if that means impersonating his impersonator. Suspenseful, hilarious, hugely impassioned, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, Operation Shylock is at...
Suspenseful, hilarious, hugely impassioned, pulsing with intelligence and narrative energy, Operation Shylock is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity,...
- Philip Roth
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- Operation Shylock: A Confession
Dec 23, 2010 · Operation Shylock is at once spy story, political thriller, meditation on identity and unfathomable journey through a volatile, frightening middle-east.
In OPERATION SHYLOCK, the character Philip Roth travels to Israel, where he plans to interview Aharon Applefeld, a gentle writer whose subject is the disappearance of the Jews from Europe and the effect of the Holocaust on survivors.
- Philip Roth
