Disobedience: A Novel (Paperback)

by Naomi Alderman (Author)

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Product Details

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Touchstone; 1 edition (May 22 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743291573
ISBN-13: 978-0743291576
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 227 g
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Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #137,198 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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From Publishers Weekly

Alderman draws on her Orthodox Jewish upbringing and current life in Hendon, England, for her entertaining debut, which won the Orange Prize for New Writers after it was published in the U.K. in March. In writing about the inhabitants of this small, gossipy society, Alderman cleverly uses a slightly sinister, omniscient "we" to represent a community that speaks with one voice, and her descriptions of Orthodox customs are richly embroidered. Alternating with this perspective is the first-person narrative of Ronit Krushka, a woman who has left the community and is now a financial analyst in New York. After the death of her estranged father, a powerful rabbi, Ronit returns to England to mourn her father and to confront her past, including a female lover. But Ronit's shock that an Orthodox lesbian would marry a man rings false, as does her casually condescending attitude toward the community. By the time of the theatrical, unrealistic climax, Ronit's struggle between religious and secular imperatives gets reduced to cliché ("all we have, in the end, are the choices we make"), but Ronit works well as a vehicle for the opinion that even the most alienated New York Judaism is preferable to the English version, where "the Jewish fear of being noticed and the natural British reticence interact." (Sept.)
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From AudioFile

Alderman's first novel, set in the world of British Orthodox Jewry, offers detailed insights into a tradition that can usually only be glimpsed and guessed at--the ritual baths, the rush to prepare the Sabbath, the behind-the-scenes back-biting and manipulations of congregants. Prefacing segments with quotes from the Torah and Talmud, Alderman does an excellent job of capturing how individuals and community justify themselves. The story itself, however, is far less interesting, veering between the obvious and the incredible, with the result that listeners aren't able to identify or sympathize. Roe Kendall's narration is adequate but uninspired, and the voices of the two women protagonists are often difficult to differentiate. R.R. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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