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 Books In 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.