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Time Magazine Best American Novel (1993) In this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be fiction), 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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Philip Roth: Add a description of this character.
- Philip Roth/impersonator
- George Ziad
- John Demjanjuk
- Aharon Appelfeld
- Mr. Smilesburger
- Rosenberg
- Apter
- Sheftel
- Diasporism
- Kamil
- Uri
- Wanda Jane
- Ivan
- Anna
- David Hotel
- Claire
- Arafat
- Michael
- Chumak
- Hitler
- Supposnik
- Lech Walesa
- Jonathan Pollard
- Pipik
- Shmuel
- Pierre Roget
- Klinghoffer
- Donna
- Deborah
- Woody Allen
- Otto
- Walter Sweeney
- Levin
- Manson
- Anne Frank
- Kahane
- Prosser
- Freud
- Hector
Setting & Locations edit
- Jerusalem
- Israel
- Treblinka
- America
- Europe
- Chicago
- New York
- Ramallah
- Poland
- Athens
- London
- Tel Aviv
- Halcion
- Newark
- Ohio
- Connecticut
- Warsaw
- Zionism
- Auschwitz
- Shylock
- Palestine
- Boston
- Old City
- West Bank
- Haifa
- New Jersey
- Irving Berlin
- Cleveland
- Gdansk
- Danbury
- Middle East
- Dostoyevsky
- Paris
- Germany
- France
- Romania
Series & Lists edit
This book is in New York Times Best American Fiction 1981-2006. (authoritative list)
This is book 137 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Looking for the Possible Dance, and followed by Complicity.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philip Roth (Author)
Awards edit
- Pen/Faulkner Award (1994: Fiction)
- Pulitzer Prize (Finalist, 1994: Fiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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