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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)

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Philip Roth ふぃりっぷ・ろす Winner

Operation 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
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