num_pages: 272
description: Jessica, the daughter of a wealthy merchant who lives in the Jewish Ghetto, must choose between her family and aristocrat Lorenzo, the man that she loves, when he states that he will only marry her if she converts to Christianity, in an intricately woven tapestry of life in sixteenth-century Venice that is drawn from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
language: English
title: Shylock's Daughter
titlecomplete: Shylock's Daughter
genres: Young Adult Historical Fiction, Young Adult, German Literature, Novels, Italy, Teen, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Retellings, 16th Century
ratings_count: 215
places: Venice
publisher: Dial