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by Naomi Alderman (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Viking (2 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0670916285
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670916283
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 355,825 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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’Sharp, funny and poignant’

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‘A fresh, feisty peek at the hidden world of London’s Orthodox Jewish Community’
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Opens up a whole new world and delievers a compulsive read, 28 Feb 2006
This might not be what a forty-something bloke would normally read - a lesbian exploration of friendship and morality set in the heart of London's orthodox Jewish community - but I loved it. It is suffused with warmth, the characters feel fully formed, genuine and likeable, their dilemmas real. I felt I was getting an insight for another world, one packed with rigid religious rules alien to me, but also the sort of petty morality, gossip and bitchiness that are universal. Step aside Monica Ali and Brick Lane, it's time for north London to have its moment in the sun - and Disobedience in the book to do it.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, brilliant writing and an insight into another world, 8 Mar 2006
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Ronit, a young orthodox jewish woman from Hendon escapes her past and moves to New York where she does everything a orthodox jewish woman shouldn't - she wears trousers, has sex with people who aren't her husband - even someone else's, smokes and drinks. Her father, the rabbi, then dies and she returns to go to his funeral and she returns to everything she escaped from - the petty jealousies, the stifling community and also to a childhood sweetheart.

I loved this book - it provided an insight into a world and a religion that I knew very little about and I loved the characters and found it moving and engrossing.

It has been lauded as the next Brick Lane but I enjoyed it much more than Brick Lane as I found the characters less stereotypical and I loved the warm wit and the great writing.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive Read, 10 Mar 2006
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This book is brilliant. The story-line is addictive - once you're past the first chapter you really do want to keep reading to find out what happens next.
I love the way each chapter has its own mini introduction explaining the background to the religious theme behind the story-line.
There are a couple of very tiny bits where you can predict the plot, but they don't ruin the story at all - in fact they make you want to read more to find out if you're right and also how it affects the story.
I think everyone should read this book - those who are even slightly open minded will love it because the religious aspects and lesbian parts won't worry them. Those who aren't open minded at all should read this book too to realise that this book shows how all people go through the same things - social acceptance issues, fitting in even amongst your own kind etc etc etc. It is a book everyone can relate to in their own way.
I think this will permanently be a favourite of mine!
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I enjoyed the book but felt it ended prematurely, there could have been more substance to it, more of a plot development, ended too quickly for me!
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