The emperor of shoes : a novel
- Title
- The emperor of shoes : a novel / Spencer Wise.
- Published by
- Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2018]
- ©2018
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 328 pages; 24 cm
- 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?"--
- Subject
- Jews, American
- Democracy
- Family-owned business enterprises
- Fathers and sons
- Social problems
- Loyalty
- FICTION / Jewish
- Fathers and sons > Fiction
- Guangdong Sheng (China) > Fiction
- Jews, American > China > Fiction
- Fiction
- Social problems > Fiction
- Novels
- Loyalty > Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Democracy > China > Fiction
- Shoe industry > Corrupt practices > Fiction
- China > Guangdong Sheng
- Shoemakers > Fiction
- Family-owned business enterprises > China > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Call number
- JFE 18-8670
- Author
- Wise, Spencer, author.
- Title
- The emperor of shoes : a novel / Spencer Wise.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2018]
- Copyright date
- ©2018
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- ISBN
- 9781335145901 (hbk.)
- 1335145907 (hbk.)
- Research call number
- JFE 18-8670