Shylocks Tochter

By Mirjam Pressler

Subjects: Identity, fiction, Venice (italy), fiction, Fathers and daughters, Identity, Jews, fiction, Prejudices, Italy, history, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Jews, Prejudices, 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.