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I Am Forbidden

Anouk Markovits

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EAN: 9781448114207
Published: 14 Jun 2012

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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.

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What the critics say

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
- Glasgow Sunday Herald

Fascinating... Offers a glimpse into the real world of Hasidic life
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Outstanding novel
- Sunday Telegraph (Seven)

Using the language of the scriptures, Markovits depicts religion’s potential for both beauty and cruelty, and the inevitability of transgression even in the most devout life
- Financial Times

The writing is stunning, the execution flawless and the plot utterly gripping (4 stars)
- Stylist

An unusual, beautifully written novel
- The Lady

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About the Author

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.