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.
