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Title: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant ISBN: 0-312-19551-6 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (1007 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A new take on a great story
Comment: Anita Diamant is a great story teller, but she doesn't just tell a story in this book, she recreates a world. I love to read Scripture, but there is very little, if anything, in the entire Bible that is told from a woman's point of view. The Red Tent gives a voice to Dinah, who is absolutely voiceless in the Bible, where her story is told by others. The author draws compelling, flawed characters who are a joy to get to know. And her take on the competition between Leah and Rachel, and the different roles they fill in Jacob's life, is totally believable.
Her depiction of the events in Dinah's life are vastly different from the Biblical version. That's why they call it fiction.
Rating: 3
Summary: the story of some of the first women
Comment: This book is about the story of Dinah, whose mother is Leah, first wife of Jacob. In the Bible, the main thread of the story of Jacob. The women whom he married - who happen to all be sisters -- are but a footnote.
Here, Dinah tells of how her mothers grew up in the house of their father Laban, and their status depended on whose mother was who. Thus, Leah and Rachel are the first wives, and their sisters Zilpah and Bilhah are considered their handmaidens and thus the lesser wives of Jacob. However, they are all mothers to Dinah, the only daughter born to any of them, although she neds up having 11 brothers in all.
The story follows Dinah's understanding of her life and the women around her, as they congregtae in the red tent, a place reserved for the women during menstruation, where they form a bond of sisterhood.
However, jealousies and tribal honor arise as Dinah chooses a husband when she is of marriageable age (after her first period, in these times.) This changes the course of her life dramatically, and I though the tale of her adult life was far more fascinating than her childhood and who begat whom.
This is a great read, a welcome departure from all that chick-lit out there.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing and touching
Comment: My godmother bought me this book and I have to say I read it in 2 days savoring every word. I was so intrigued by it that I decided to go and read the book of genesis. Yes it was inaccurate but her purpose was to tell a story, a story that a grandmother might tell her granddaughter verbatium. Just read it, look at it and you will get lost in the beautiful story.
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Title: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ISBN: 0142001740 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ISBN: 0452282152 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 08 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Memoirs of a Geisha : A Novel by Arthur Golden ISBN: 0679781587 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 10 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Life of Pi by Yann Martel ISBN: 0156027321 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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