*NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND RACHEL MCADAMS *AUTHOR OF ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMAβS FAVORITE READS OF 2017 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Power comes a novel about a young woman who must return home in the wake of her fatherβs death and confront the tight-kni
Disobedience
β Scribed by Naomi Alderman
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Edition
- UK
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141906073
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From the author of The Power , winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
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.
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