num_pages: 277
description: From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind.
language: English
title: Disobedience
titlecomplete: Disobedience
genres: Jewish, Lesbian, LGBT, Religion, Romance, Queer, Fiction, Contemporary, Audiobook, Judaism
ratings_count: 11712
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: New Writers, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Sami Rohr Prize
category: Jewish Literature
publisher: Penguin Books