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Disobedience

ISBN 
9780141025957
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R245.00
Published 
May 2007
About the book: 

Granta Best Young British Novelist Naomi Alderman's Disobedience is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith.

By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind.

The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind.

'Rich, fresh, fascinating. A wonderful novel ' - Sunday Times

'Funny, tender and insightful ' - Maureen Lipman, Guardian

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About the Author

Naomi Alderman grew up in the Orthodox Jewish community in northwest London. Her first novel, Disobedience , was published in 10 languages and won the Orange Award for New Writers and the Sunday Times  Young Writer of the Year prize. She is also the winner of the 2017 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction for her book, The Power

Naomi is a frequent radio broadcaster and she is a regular contributor to several publications including the Guardian  and Prospect . She lives in London.

Photograph © Justine Stoddard.

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