{"product_id":"operation-shylock","title":"Operation Shylock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Roth's grand inventions. . . . [He is] a comic genius. -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant novel of ideas. . . . Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before. -\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe uncontested master of comic irony. -\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiabolically clever, engaging. . . . [A] white-water unstoppable narrative. . . . Roth is so spelndidly convincing. . . that the result is kind of a dizzying exhilaration. -\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be ficftion), 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 \u003cbr\u003ehis own impersonator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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, \u003ci\u003eOperation Shylock\u003c\/i\u003e barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495500751221,"sku":"9780063499737","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/operation-shylock","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}