Professor Schiff's guilt : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION SCHI (CEN)
Languages
Translated from the Hebrew.
Publication Information
New York : New Vessel Press, [2023]
Physical Description
327 pages ; 21 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"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?"--
Notes
"First published in Hebrew in 2021" -- verso.