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Pressler, Mirjam

Shylock's Daughter

266 pp. | Fogelman | June, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2667-8 $$17.99
(4) YA Translated by Brian Murdoch. In a reimagining of "The Merchant of Venice," Pressler strives to explain why the moneylender Shylock insists upon a pound of Antonio's flesh and why Jessica betrays her father. The slow-moving but ambitious story bogs down in detail and with characters whose motivations remain murky. However, the setting--the Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice--is vividly described.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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