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In The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth, protagonist and narrator Nathan Zuckerman is a Jewish American novelist who travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia in early February 1976 to obtain the unpublished manuscript of a Yiddish writer. Zuckerman meets eccentric Czech writers who obsess over sex and the authorities spying on them. While in Prague, Zuckerman explores the meaning of literature and Judaism.

The novel begins in New York 1976 when Zuckerman meets Sisovsky, a...

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