Professor Schiff's Guilt (Schiff Agur)(Paperback)

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 Aviv--the novel unfolds in different time frames--the 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
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