I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits

I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits

I Am Forbidden is a powerful portrayal of family, faith and history which sweeps the reader across continents and generations, from pre-war Transylvania to present-day New York, via Paris and England. Immersive, beautiful, moving, it explores in devastating detail what happens when unwavering love, unyielding law and centuries of tradition collide.

A strong and compelling human story -- Richard Jaffa * Birmingham Jewish Recorder *
Elegant, enthralling * New York Times *
Luminously beautiful * Sunday Telegraph *
Stunning * The New Yorker *
Takes us into the heart of the Hasidic community in New York, where two Hungarian-Romanian Jewish children orphaned during the barbarity of the Second World War are set to begin new lives -- Elmore Leonard * Glasgow Sunday Herald *

Anouk Markovits grew up in France, in an ultra-orthodox Satmar home. She attended a religious seminary in England instead of high school. She left home at the age of nineteen to avoid an arranged marriage. Markovits is the author of I Am Forbidden, which the New York Times described as an “elegant, enthralling novel” and which the Sunday Telegraph of London praised for “luminously beautiful prose.” The book was selected by Random House to re-launch its Hogarth imprint, originally founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Translations of I Am Forbidden are forthcoming in a dozen countries. Markovits’s first novel, Pur Coton, written in French, was published by Gallimard.

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ISBN 13	9780099571940
ISBN 10	0099571943
Title	I Am Forbidden
Author	Anouk Markovits
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2013-02-28
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2014 (UK)
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