Description
| Product ID: | 9781954404168 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Professor Schiff's Guilt |
| Authors: | Author: Agur Schiff, Jessica Cohen |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An Israeli professor travels to an imaginary West African nation to trace a slave-trading ancestor, only to be imprisoned under a new law barring successive generations from profiting off the proceeds of slavery. But before departing from Tel Aviv, the protagonist falls in love with Lucile, a mysterious African migrant worker who cleans his house. Entertaining and thought-provoking, this satire of contemporary attitudes toward racism and the legacy of colonialism examines economic inequality and the global refugee crisis, as well as the memory of transatlantic chattel slavery and the Holocaust. Is the professor''s passion for Africa merely a fashionable pose and the book he''s secretly writing about his experience there nothing but a modern version of the slave trade? |
| Imprint Name: | New Vessel Press |
| Publisher Name: | New Vessel Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-25 |