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\nIn this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be\nfiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip\nRoth. Because someone with that name has been touring\nIsrael, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is\nintent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own\nimpersonator.

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With excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical\nspeculation, and a cast of characters that includes Israeli\nintelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal,\nand an enticing charter member of an organization called\nAnti-Semites Anonymous, Operation Shylock barrels across the\nfrontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy,\nhistory and nightmare.

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