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Title: The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
Author: Eve Harris
Narrator: Toni Green
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-03-13
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Nineteen-year-old Chani lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London. She has never had physical contact with a man, but is bound to marry a stranger. The rabbi's wife teaches her what it means to be a Jewish wife, but Rivka has her own questions to answer. Soon buried secrets, fear, and sexual desire bubble to the surface; not to mention what happens on the wedding night.
Eve Harris taught for 12 years at inner-city comprehensives and independent schools in London and also in Tel Aviv, after moving to Israel in 1999.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013
Members Reviews:
Really enjoyable
Enjoyed this book and glad I got it on audio as lots of names etc. I wouldn't have been able to pronounce correctly! Really interesting to learn about the lives of orthodox Jews and a story that made me laugh out loud in places... not so appropriate on a cross trainer in a busy gym!
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
What would have made The Marrying of Chani Kaufman better?
I found the content of this book interesting from the point of learning about different cultures views. I did think it could have been shorter and felt it had been 'padded' out in places.
What will your next listen be?
The Olive Tree
Would you be willing to try another one of Toni Greens performances?
Yes her reading was worth listening to
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Interest is other cultures
Very interesting
A fascinating glimpse into a different culture. I love books that allow you to learn. The story is good but the ending seems a little too neat. All being shoehorned into an acceptable compromise or just giving in to the inevitable. Surely some people cannot accommodate this. Maybe that would never happen but for such an old respected culture you would have thought by the very nature of human beings some people just cannot fit into the rigid mould. Maybe that's a different book.
Nevertheless ignore my quibble this is a good book, well presented and of inestimable value to people like myself who have little knowledge of such a world and are very curious about it.
Thank you for writing it.
Very predictable!!
What did you like best about The Marrying of Chani Kaufman? What did you like least?
It was a predictable story, but easy to listen to. Some of the references made me laugh but others made me cringe. Some were wholly inaccurate!
What didnt you like about Toni Greens performance?
She pronounced so many Hebrew words wrong!!!!!!!! Surely this should have been researched first!?!??!?
I hope she's busy on the sequel
Would you consider the audio edition of The Marrying of Chani Kaufman to be better than the print version?
I went to school with Jewish girls in North London. The narrator worked for me.
What other book might you compare The Marrying of Chani Kaufman to, and why?
Very difficult to say in that it's almost a period piece yet not a period piece. A slice of 21st century London that you glimpse, but never get. Teenage girls in the middle of London who don't know how babies get made? Schools, that accept kids on condition that they don't have TV in the house? I've never come across a story like it where the values and customs are almost from another era, yet they have mobiles in their pockets!
Which scene did you most enjoy?
The disastrous proposal was fun.
