Agur Schiff

Professor Schiff's Guilt (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Cohen, Jessica

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An Israeli professor travels to an imaginary West African nation to trace a slave-trading ancestor, only to be imprisoned there under a new law barring successive generations from profiting off the proceeds of slavery. Confined to a villa by local authorities, Professor Schiff meets a string of dignitaries including a former soccer star who has become the country's president. Back in Tel Avivthe novel unfolds in different time framesthe protagonist has fallen in love with Lucile, a mysterious African migrant worker who cleans his house. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, this is a hilarious satire of contemporary attitudes toward racism and the legacy of colonialism that examines economic inequality and the global refugee crisis, as well as the historical memory of transatlantic chattel slavery and the Holocaust. Is the professor's passion for Africa merely a fashionable pose and is the book he is secretly writing about his experiences there nothing but a contemporary version of the slave trade?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Vessel Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781954404175
• Artikelnr.: 64144470

Autorenporträt

Agur Schiff, born in 1955 in Tel Aviv, is a graduate of Saint Martin's School of Art in London and the Rijks Art Academy in Amsterdam. He has worked as a filmmaker, started writing fiction in the early 1990s, and has published two short story collections and six novels. Schiff, professor emeritus at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, has been awarded the Israeli Prime Minister's Prize.