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02046aam a2200373 a 4500 001 7F4EAA50042F11EE896B6DEA35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230606010033 008 230501s2023 nyu e 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2022943250 020 $a 1954404166 020 $a 9781954404168 040 $a OClCo $c OClCo $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h heb 082 04 $a F SCH 100 1 $a Schiff, Agur, $d 1955- $e author. 245 10 $a Professor Schiff's guilt : $b a novel / $c by Agur Schiff ; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen. 260 $a New York : $b New Vessel Press, $c c2023. 300 $a 327 p. ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a 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? 650 0 $a College teachers $z Tel Aviv $z Tel Aviv $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Slavery $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Racism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Satirical literature. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Cohen, Jessica $c (Translator), $e translator. 941 $a 6 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240104012129.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004011323.0 952 $l DYPD423 $d 20230729010039.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230701010029.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230607010053.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20230606011557.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F4EAA50042F11EE896B6DEA35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search