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[OT] Naomi Alderman's New Book Released
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 		[OT] Naomi Alderman's New Book Released
Naomi Alderman is Perplex City's lead writer, and this week her (debut?) novel, Disobedience, has been released. Behold the blurb:

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In suburban north-west London, where leafy avenues wind into the countryside beyond, the Orthodox Jewish community of Hendon quietly conducts its daily life. Hidden from the gaze of outsiders, the faithful live, work, love and pray, with little concern for the sprawling metropolis outside.

But then a beloved rabbi dies, and his passing brings his wayward daughter home. For the past ten years Ronit has been living the life of a modern New York woman; returning home, she's looking forward to catching up with old friends, perhaps settling old scores. But it soon becomes clear that Hendon and Ronit don't fit. Her home has become a more unsettling place than she had anticipated. And when she is reunited with her childhood girlfriend Esti, who has taken a very different path in life, it's not long before the two women are forced to confront their pasts - and to examine the difficult choices they have made.

Disobedience is a brilliant, unputdownable novel that illuminates a culture that has existed in Britain for centuries, yet remains almost entirely hidden. 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.

Guardian
`Fascinating . . . a meditation on faith, belonging and self-emancipation'

The Independent
`A fresh, feisty peek at the hidden world of London's Orthodox Jewish Community'

Diana Evans, author of '26a'
'A bold and fiery debut, brimming with grace as well as attitude'

Vogue
`Disobedience reaches beyond exposé status. A loving anger feeds its critique of the UK's orthodox Jewish society'

Maureen Lipman
`Funny, tender and insightful'


You can buy it hardcover from Amazon, leading bookshops, and (I just discovered) Tescos, for the très reasonable price of £8.50ish.

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 		And further to the above:

Naomi has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers.

She's up against Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov and Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers...not having read them and going by titles alone she wins hands down. Plus if you've not seen a copy, it has a lovely front cover. Very tactile.
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 		Aaand, even more further to the above, looks like congratulations are in order!
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 		Beautifully written but a bit sneering in places.

(I think that review might be in the TLS next week)
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