457pp , ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Eliette Abécassis (Strasbourg, January 27, 1969 -) is a writer , essayist and filmmaker French Sephardic origins marroquíes.Hija historian of Jewish thought of Sephardic Moroccan Armand Abécassis , professor at the University of Bordeaux, was a student at the École Normale Supérieur and taught philosophy at the University of Caen in 1997 before their careers in the literature. She is divorced and the mother of two children. He has mainly written rigorously documented historical novels ; Qumran (1996 ) , translated into eighteen languages ; L' Or et la cendre (1997 ) , the story of the mysterious death of a Berlin theologian ; The Répudiée (2000 ) , Grand Prix finalist novel by the French Academy and Females proposal for award ; Le Trésor du temple (2001 ) ; Mon père (2002 ) ; Clandestin (2003 ), the story of an impossible love ; La dernière Tribe (2004 ) ; A Happy Event ( 2005 on the experience of motherhood ) and Sépharade , (2009 ) , translated