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After the Wedding
The marvellous story and major bestseller The Marrying of Chani Kaufman continues in the new novel by the ›Booker‹ nominee Eve Harris.
Chani has made it: she married the man of her choice — a rare blessing in her Orthodox Jewish community. And now? Be fruitful and multiply, says HaShem, but for ten months they do not become pregnant, which causes Chani great distress, as she knows that her husband has the right to divorce her if she is unable to bear him children. To make things worse, there is no room for childless, divorced women in her strict community. Between London and Tel Aviv, the multiple narratives weave a story of Orthodox Jewish life and the sacrifices that come with choosing your own path — frum or frei.
512 pages
2024
978-3-257-07255-6
»Eve Harris has once again written a bestseller with her nuanced, unpretentious insider knowledge and humour about these inside views of an Orthodox community, for which she can only be congratulated.«
»The second novel by the author who depicts Orthodox Jewish life with lots of British humour and empathy.«
»A fantastic book, densely written, precisely researched and absolutely addictive.«
»Harris delivers a great, often seemingly unfamiliar insight into Orthodox Jewish life.«
»Yiddish humour is paired with British humour, making it a real pleasure to read.«
»An exceptionally sensitive and intelligent book.«
»A book about the constraints of faith, but also about the possibility of freeing oneself from them.«
»An extremely insightful book based on reality.«