by Eliette Abécassis · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478445998
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«La repudiada» is the novel by Eliette Abécassis published by Siruela in paperback, with 140 pages and text in Spanish.
The novel is set in Meah Shearim, the Hasidic quarter of Jerusalem, where a young woman is repudiated by her husband for not giving him a son. Abécassis portrays her existence subjected to an asphyxiating religious fundamentalism, forced to follow divine law without protest, and makes the brevity of the tale its main strength.
The work belongs to the Nuevos Tiempos collection (no. 9), is translated from French by Sacra Comorera, and the edition is from 2002.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories with a religious and social background about the female condition.
Éliette Abécassis is a French writer of Moroccan-Jewish descent. She is a professor of philosophy at the University of Caen Normandy.
