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Description

1. 328 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "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

1. Shoe industry -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.
2. Family-owned business enterprises -- China -- Fiction.
3. Shoemakers -- Fiction.
4. Jews, American -- China -- Fiction.
5. Democracy -- China -- Fiction.
6. Social problems -- Fiction.
7. Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
8. Loyalty -- Fiction.
9. Democracy.
10. Family-owned business enterprises.
11. Fathers and sons.
12. Jews, American.
13. Loyalty.
14. Shoemakers.
15. Social problems.
16. Guangdong Sheng (China) -- Fiction.
17. China.
18. China -- Guangdong Sheng.

Genre/Form

1. Novels.
2. Fiction.

Call number

1. JFE 18-8670

Language

1. English

Author

1. Wise, Spencer, author.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

ISBN

1. 9781335145901 (hbk.)
2. 1335145907 (hbk.)