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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Abomination
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'A compelling and compassionate debut about friendship, faith, family and identity.

''He who turns his ear away from hearing the Torah – even his prayer is an abomination.’ Proverbs 28:9

'Melbourne 1999: Ezra and Yonatan are best friends whose lives are forever changed when their school, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Yahel Academy, is rocked by a scandal and they are thrown onto two divergent paths. Twenty years later, the lives of the two men are very different: Ezra identifies as secular and atheist, while Yonatan has been ordained as a rabbi and even teaches at the academy. By chance they are reunited, and the events of their past and present collide with devastating consequences.

'Abomination lays bare the clash between religious and secular worlds in contemporary Australia and provides a revealing glimpse into a closed community. With great tenderness and insight debut author Ashley Goldberg tells the story of an enduring and evolving friendship as Yonatan and Ezra struggle to come to terms with the choices they have made, search for meaning, and forge their own identities. This is a beautifully observed, moving story from an exciting young writer.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Vintage , 2022 .
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      Extent: 288p.
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      • Published: 3 May 2022
      ISBN: 9781761041778

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Works about this Work

Books Roundup Ellen Cregan , Dženana Vucic , Lyn Dickens , Lisa Emanuel , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , May 2022;

— Review of How to Be Between Bastian Fox Phelan , 2022 single work autobiography ; Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance Eda Gunaydin , 2022 selected work essay ; Daisy and Woolf Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work novel ; Abomination Ashley Goldberg , 2022 single work novel
Books Roundup Ellen Cregan , Dženana Vucic , Lyn Dickens , Lisa Emanuel , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , May 2022;

— Review of How to Be Between Bastian Fox Phelan , 2022 single work autobiography ; Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance Eda Gunaydin , 2022 selected work essay ; Daisy and Woolf Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work novel ; Abomination Ashley Goldberg , 2022 single work novel
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