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Die Hoffnung der Chani Kaufman
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After the Wedding
Published by Diogenes as Die Hoffnung der Chani Kaufman
Original Title: 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.

Contemporary Literature
512 pages
2024

978-3-257-07255-6
Eve
Harris

Eve Harris, born in London in 1973 to Polish-Israeli parents, worked as a teacher for twelve years, including at Catholic and Orthodox Jewish girls' schools in London and Tel Aviv. The Marriage of Chani Kaufman was nominated for the ›Man Booker Prize‹ in 2013. Eve Harris lives in London with her husband and two children.

Eve Harris

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Jochanan Shelliem
NDR Kultur, Hambug

»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.«

Juliane Reichert
Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin

»The second novel by the author who depicts Orthodox Jewish life with lots of British humour and empathy.«

Sarah Levy
Brigitte, Hamburg

»A fantastic book, densely written, precisely researched and absolutely addictive.«

Rolf Fath
Badische Neueste Nachrichten, Karlsruhe

»Harris delivers a great, often seemingly unfamiliar insight into Orthodox Jewish life.«

Nicole Freyfus
Jüdische Allgemeine, Berlin

»Yiddish humour is paired with British humour, making it a real pleasure to read.«

Main-Post, Frankfurt

»An exceptionally sensitive and intelligent book.«

Deutsche Welle, Bonn

»A book about the constraints of faith, but also about the possibility of freeing oneself from them.«

Münchner Merkur, Munich

»An extremely insightful book based on reality.«