SACRED
by Eliette Abecassis
translated by Karen Newby
Shortlisted for the Prix Femina and the Academie Francaise Literary Prize.
Adapted as the acclaimed film, 'Kadosh' by Amos Gitai,
selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
Sacred is the heart-breaking love story of a young woman and her husband, living
in the ultra-orthodox Mea Sharim community in Jerusalem. After ten years of
marriage without children, her husband is forced by custom to reject her. Does
she dare to tell the truth – or will she let her beloved husband, the son
of the Rabbi, marry another?
'A terrifying book on the feminine condition. Le Figaro.
'... Abecassis describes with subtlety, the way in which love and the lives
of women today are destroyed for the sake of the love of God.' Femmes d'Aujour'hui
(Women Today) '
'... goes way beyond the anecdotal to resemble a kind of univeral tragedy, we
watch once again, as the absurd conflict between love and a life lived within
the strict confines of religious laws, is played out on the world stage... Le
Matin.
PRICE £9.95/$19.95
ISBN 0-9536757-8-5
PAGES 144