“Disobedience” is the debut
novel of Naomi Alderman, for which she has just won the 2006 Orange Prize for
New Writers. In the Orthodox Jewish community of Hendon, a well-loved rabbi
dies. His daughter, Ronit, returns home from over a decade in New York for the
funeral. She thinks she knows what to expect from her old home, but she finds
that she is now adrift from it. Meeting with her former girlfriend Esti again
forces both women to confront the very different paths that their lives have
taken. As her agent writes: “With incredible insight and enduring wit, Naomi
Alderman offers a contemporary take on the search for love, faith and
understanding in a world filled with conflicting moral and sexual ideals”. For
more information about the author, you must visit our Naomi Alderman page.
