Professor Schiff's Guilt

"A writer contends with slavery's legacy, and his own link to it . . . Daring in both scope and imagination."—The New York Times

A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a slave-trading ancestor, only to be imprisoned under a new law barring successive generations from profiting off the proceeds of slavery. But before departin...