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The emperor of shoes : a novel

Wise, Spencer (author.).

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?"--

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  • ISBN: 9781335145901
  • ISBN: 1335145907
  • Physical Description: print
    328 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2018]

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Subject:
Shoe industry Corrupt practices 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) Fiction
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Fiction.

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