Operation Shylock. Ein Bekenntnis.

philip roth

In Israel trifft der Schriftsteller Philip Roth auf einen Mann, der unter seinem Namen den Auszug der Juden aus Israel propagiert. Ist dieser Doppelgänger nur ein Irrer, oder ist er ein gefährlicher Hochstapler? Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich, und der echte Philip Roth gerät in ein politisch brisantes Spionagenetz. Er beginnt an seiner Identität zu zweifeln und vermag bald nicht mehr, zwischen Wahn und Wirklichkeit sicher zu unterscheiden. Und dem Leser geht es ähnlich ... »Operation Shylock ist sein bestes Buch seit Jahren. Spionagegeschichte, Thriller, politischer Roman: so aberwitzig, absurd und klug wie die Geschichten, die er noch erfand, dem Gegenleben ebenbürtig.« DIE WOCHE
Für Operation Shylock wurde Philip Roth mit dem Pen/Faulkner-Preis ausgezeichnet.

Genres fictionjewishnovelsliteratureamericanliterary fictioncontemporarythe united states of americaisrael20th century

464 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1993

Literary awards

pulitzer prize, pen/faulkner award for fiction,

This edition

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1994 by Carl Hanser
ISBN: 9783446176935
ASIN: 3446176934
Language: German

About the author

philip roth

Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2005, the Library of America began publishing his complete works, making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty. Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along with Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague.