PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ぺん/ふぉーくなーしょう(ふぃくしょんぶもん)
Edition 14 (1994)
FictionNovelAmerican Literature Award
Winners
1 peopleOperation Shylock is a metafictional novel with a protagonist who resembles the author himself. Set in Israel, it incisively questions imitation and authenticity, identity, and the instability of Jewish belonging.
A writer-like protagonist unsettles the boundary between truth and fiction.
398 pages
metafictionidentityJewishnesspolitics