Disobedience - Naomi Alderman
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English - March 02, 2014 16:30 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB - ★★★★ - 208 ratingsSociety & Culture books culture news productivity health business entrepreneurship interview comedy politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With James Naughtie.
Naomi Alderman, listed as one of Granta's Best Young Novelists 2013, responds to readers' questions about her first novel Disobedience.
Alderman, herself a product of London's Jewish community, tells the story of Ronit, a young woman who's escaped her Orthodox upbringing for independence in New York. Ronit is forced to face her past when she returns home after her father, a pre-eminent Rabbi, dies. Disobedience won the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers.
Producer: Dymphna Flynn
April's Bookclub choice : The Sea (2005) by John Banville.