Unorthodox: Mi verdadera historia / Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

Unorthodox: Mi verdadera historia / Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

El libro en que se basa la serie de Netflix

«Millones de personas confinadas en todo el mundo se han dejado fascinar estos d as por Unorthodox ...], un mundo tan ex tico como real (Ana Carbajosa, El Pa s)

Como miembro de los Satmar, una comunidad de jud os ultraortodoxos en Williamsburg (Nueva York), Deborah Feldman crece bajo un estricto c digo de costumbres que rige desde su idioma -el yidis- o su indumentaria hasta sus lecturas y las personas con las que le es permitido relacionarse. Siendo adolescente, intuye que puede existir una forma de vida alternativa entre los rascacielos de Manhattan, y se debate entre la responsabilidad de ser una buena jud a jas dica y sus anhelos de independencia. Pero pronto se ve atrapada en un matrimonio concertado que resulta frustrante, sexual y emocionalmente. Todo cambia cuando, a los diecinueve a os, da a luz a su hijo y comprende que, a pesar de todos los obst culos, ha de encontrar para ambos un camino hacia la libertad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Now a Netflix original series

Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.

As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah's desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path--for herself and her son--to happiness and freedom.

Remarkable and fascinating, this sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is one you won't be able to put down.

Deborah Feldman grew up in the Hasidic settlement of Satmar in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. She is a student at Sarah Lawrence College and lives with her kid in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781644732656
ISBN 10	1644732653
Title	Unorthodox: Mi verdadera historia / Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Author	Deborah Feldman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Year published	2020-08-18
Number of pages	392
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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