The emperor of shoes / Spencer Wise.
Publication details: Harpenden : No Exit Press, 2018.Description: 318 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780857302182 (hardback)
- 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
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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?