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The Red Tent: A Novel

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The Red Tent: A Novel

by Anita Diamant

St. Martin's Press | September 15, 1997 | Hardcover

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 are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons.

Told in Dinah''s voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood-the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers-Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah-the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that are to sustain her through a damaged youth, 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, immediate connection.

Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of Biblical women''s society.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Great Read

    Willa

    5 weeks ago

    This book is a great read and gives fascinating insight into life in biblical times; it kept me totally engrossed and is definitely worth a read.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Amazing

    Nico

    2 years ago

    A wonderful book about women, ancient traditions and the power of love and sex.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Mesmorizing

    Marie L.

    3 years ago

    What a great historical novel. The power of women, and the quiet strength that is possessed. This novel conveys the inner world of women, using the bible to guide the story. I read this book about 2 years ago, and still remember it as being a book I couldn't put down, and was sad, when I finished it. All women need to read this book.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Amazing & unforgettable

    Orlene Campbell

    4 years ago

    I absoluley loved this book. The story of Dinah is heartwarming and tragic. Difficut to stop reading, I was compelled to find out about Dinahs unselfish love she had for everyone...and yet praying that she too would find happiness in the end. Beautiful woven story that was intreging and woven like fine tapestry.
    A must read....ENJOY !!

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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 are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood - the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers - Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah - the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that are to sustain her through a damaged youth, 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, immediate connection

From the Publisher

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 are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons.

Told in Dinah''s voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood-the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers-Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah-the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that are to sustain her through a damaged youth, 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, immediate connection.

Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of Biblical women''s society.

From the Jacket

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 are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah''s voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood - the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers - Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah - the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that are to sustain her through a damaged youth, 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, immediate connection.

About the Author

Anita Diamant is the author of the novels Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown and Day After Night, a collection of essays, Pitching My Tent, as well as six books about contemporary Jewish life, including The New Jewish Wedding and Choosing a Jewish Life: A Guidebook for People Converting to Judaism. Diamant grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and Denver, Colorado. She has a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's in English from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband. 

Hardcover

336 Pages, 6.46 x 9.54 x 1.27 IN

September 15, 1997

St. Martin's Press


0312169787
9780312169787

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"The wives of Jacob gather in the red tent, and in that image Anita Diamant has found the heart of a pulsing and moving novel. The tent is red because of the falling sun, and because of the flowing blood. The tent is, as the narrator says, ''an earthbound rainbow,'' which is also true of this novel. Dinah, famously a daughter and a sister, finally tells her own story-and the story of that unknown legion, God''s women. When the light is refracted through their experience-and through the lens of Anita Diamant''s moral imagination-the colors couldn''t be more vivid, and the oldest story of all could never seem more original, or more true." --James Carroll, author of An American Requiem

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