Sacred

Author: Abecassis, Eliette, Newby, Karen

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 27 November 2002 by Aurora Metro Publications in the United Kingdom.

Filmed as Kadosh by Amos Gitai; Selected for the Cannes Film FestivalSacred is the moving love story of a young woman, living in the ultra-orthodox community in Jerusalem. Spurned by her community for failing to conceive a child in ten years of marriage, her husband is forced by custom to reject her. Should she tell the truth about his infertility - or watch while her husband, the son of the Rabbi, marries another?