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Shylocks Tochter
by Mirjam Pressler
First Published
2009
Subjects
Jews
Juvenile fiction
History
Fathers and daughters
Identity
Prejudices
Fiction
Children's fiction
Jews, fiction
Identity, fiction
Prejudices, fiction
Venice (italy), fiction
Italy, history, fiction
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jessica, who longs to be free of the restrictions of her father and life in the Jewish ghetto of sixteen-century Venice, falls in love with a Christian aristocrat and must make choices which will affect her whole family. Inspired by Shakespeare's play The merchant of Venice.