Professor Schiff's guilt, a novel, by Agur Schiff ; translated by Jessica Cohen
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Professor Schiff's guilt, a novel, by Agur Schiff ; translated by Jessica Cohen
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Professor Schiff's guilt
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1340032304
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by Agur Schiff ; translated by Jessica Cohen
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a novel
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"A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious 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?"--, Provided by publisher
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