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Author:

Wise, Spencer.

Title:

The emperor of shoes / Spencer Wise.

Publisher:

Hanover Square Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

328 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Shoe industry--Fiction.--Fiction.
Family-owned business enterprises--China--Fiction.
Shoemakers--Fiction.
Jews, American--China--Fiction.
Democracy--China--Fiction.
Social problems--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Loyalty--Fiction.
Guangdong Sheng (China)

Summary:

"Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their family-owned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, but as he explores the plant's vast floors and assembly lines, he comes to a grim realization: employees are exploited, regulatory systems are corrupt and Alex's own father is engaging in bribes to protect the bottom line. When Alex meets a seamstress named Ivy, his sympathies begin to shift. She is an embedded organizer of a pro-democratic Chinese party, secretly sowing dissonance among her fellow laborers. Will Alex remain loyal to his father and his heritage? Or will the sparks of revolution ignite?"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1335145907
9781335145901

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1037100245

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