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Books : The Red Tent: A NovelIn association with Amazon.comby: Anita Diamant  List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.20 You Save: $4.80 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780312427290 ISBN: 0312427298 Label: Picador Manufacturer: Picador Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: August 21, 2007 Publisher: Picador Release Date: August 21, 2007 Studio: Picador Sales Rank: 6375 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A New York Times Bestseller A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition of The Red Tent. Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons. Told in Dinah's voice, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of the mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through childhood, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's lives. Amazon.com Review: The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice, Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah--all wives to Jacob, and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles, slaves, artisans, household gods, and sisterhood secrets. Eventually Dinah delves into her own saga of betrayals, grief, and a call to midwifery. "Like any sisters who live together and share a husband, my mother and aunties spun a sticky web of loyalties and grudges," Anita Diamant writes in the voice of Dinah. "They traded secrets like bracelets, and these were handed down to me the only surviving girl. They told me things I was too young to hear. They held my face between their hands and made me swear to remember." Remembering women's earthy stories and passionate history is indeed the theme of this magnificent book. In fact, it's been said that The Red Tent is what the Bible might have been had it been written by God's daughters, instead of her sons. --Gail Hudson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Literary Bread and Water- Will Make You Feel AliveThis book is the best book I've read in a long time. It is literary bread and water: fleshy with life, sustaining and fulfilling, yet clean and unadorned and quenching. It is the story of the life of Woman, told through the life of one woman. At times we see through the eyes of a girl-child, observing so many new details with a slow hand, and this first part of the book is luxurious and comfortable. Then you are suddenly a woman speeding through painful, empty years, and then finally savoring ... Read More Rating: - A must read.Even as a Christian and considering the liberty she takes with biblical characters, I believe this is a book to be read by all women. So beautiful. Rating: - The Red TentThe Red Tent is one of the best books I have ever read! It was plausible, and it taught me a lot about the women of this period. I think every woman should read it. I enjoyed it so much, I bought my step-daughter a copy so she could read it. Everyone I know who has read the book has loved it! Anita Diamant shows an incredible talent for story telling in this book. I look forward to reading more of her books. Rating: - wonderfully engrossingI would reread this book without hesitation! the descriptions so vivid... the story telling is supreme. the author really uses the english language to her advantage. One can sympathize with the main character Dinah. Sometimes I wish women still had a red tent to congregate in... sigh Rating: - Pagan women in an early Jewish worldAnita Diamant, The Red Tent This book tells a fictionalized story of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. It's a story of the women of ancient Hebrew society, with emphasis on the wives of Jacob. Though Dinah makes only a cameo appearance in the Hebrew bible, Diamant manages to milk quite a novel out of very little raw material. As a guy, I am definitely not in the target audience for this book, which is undoubtedly marketed as "chick lit." (The Amazon reviewers, I note, are overwhelmingly ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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