Operation Shylock
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782070401901 (2070401901)
Publish date: April 1st 1997
Publisher: Gallimard Education
Pages no: 656
Edition language: French
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
Contemporary,
Modern,
United States,
Israel
On the surface it is an international spy story set in Jerusalem (mostly). In fact it ponders identity, dissimulation, Zionism, Anti-Semitism, what it is to be a good Jew. Lots of fun, but lots to think about as well. I wrote more about it (before I finished it, but still) on my blog at http://beths...