The emperor of shoes /
Wise, Spencer,
The emperor of shoes / Spencer Wise. - Harpenden : No Exit Press, 2018. - 318 pages ; 24 cm.
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 realisation: 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 organiser of a pro-democratic Chinese party, secretly sowing dissonance among her fellow labourers. Will Alex remain loyal to his father and his heritage? Or will the sparks of revolution ignite?
9780857302182 (hardback)
be2018035441
GBB884362 bnb
018861859 Uk
Democracy.
Family-owned business enterprises.
Fathers and sons.
Jews, American.
Loyalty.
Shoemakers.
Social problems.
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.
China.
China--Guangdong Sheng.
Guangdong Sheng (China)--Fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.
Novels.
813/.6
The emperor of shoes / Spencer Wise. - Harpenden : No Exit Press, 2018. - 318 pages ; 24 cm.
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 realisation: 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 organiser of a pro-democratic Chinese party, secretly sowing dissonance among her fellow labourers. Will Alex remain loyal to his father and his heritage? Or will the sparks of revolution ignite?
9780857302182 (hardback)
be2018035441
GBB884362 bnb
018861859 Uk
Democracy.
Family-owned business enterprises.
Fathers and sons.
Jews, American.
Loyalty.
Shoemakers.
Social problems.
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.
China.
China--Guangdong Sheng.
Guangdong Sheng (China)--Fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.
Novels.
813/.6
