Pressler, Mirjam.

Shylock's daughter / Mirjam Pressler ; translated and with an afterword by Brian Murdoch. - New York : P. Fogelman Books, 2001. - 266 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0803726678 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 00061012

Subjects--Topical Terms:
global literature
Jews--History--Italy--Venice--16th century--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Identity--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Venice (Italy)--History--16th century--Fiction.
Italy--History--16th century--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.P921965 / Sh 2001

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]