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S'està carregant… The Red Tentde Anita Diamant
  
» 35 més Historical Fiction (38) Five star books (217) Female Protagonist (273) Favourite Books (978) Unread books (317) Books Read in 2015 (1,505) A Novel Cure (225) My favourite books (80) Books tagged favorites (309) Contemporary Fiction (56) Jewish Books (10) Women's Stories (82) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  bookworm12 | Dec 22, 2020 |  This is fabulous story and I loved every moment of it. Beautiful, heartbreaking, lyrical, philosophical... I love retellings or alternate perspectives of famous stories and this was a believable, albeit fictional, account of Dinah (daughter of Jacob). It is about motherhood and being a woman in Biblical times, but also so much more. Just perfect. (  ) JustZelma | Dec 20, 2020 | It was well written, but didn't hold my attention. It was interesting to hear a different perspective on the story of Jacob. I appreciated the strong female voice. I didn't connect with the narrator, and this might have been due to listening to the book rather than reading it. (  ) GretchenCollins | Dec 10, 2020 | This was a decently-written book with a great premise that wore down in the end. Towards the end, the plot was a little ridiculous. A certain reunion in particular. ( ) DrFuriosa | Dec 4, 2020 | Interesting way to bring a minor biblical character to life. Vivid description made the story feel real and timeless. Focus on women was enlightening. ( ) CarrieWuj | Oct 24, 2020 |
The Red Tent instantly drew me in from its very first paragraph. The narrative voice, that of Dinah, reminded me a lot of that of Margaret Atwood’s wonderful Penelopiad which I read last year. It was strong but slightly melancholy and conveyed the same idea of reclaiming the story of a marginal woman from a great male narrative, telling the story from a new, feminine perspective and revealing what ‘really’ happened. The red tent of the title is the separate tent set aside for the women where they go while menstruating to keep apart from the men. The Red Tent then is a very appropriate title as the book focused almost exclusively on feminine concerns: becoming a woman, giving birth and finding a husband. I appreciated this insight into their secret world and I liked the idea of telling a masculine story to recentre it around the women. Contingut aTé l'adaptacióTé una guia de referència/complement
The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant. The novel traces her life from childhood to death, in the process examining sexual and religious practices of the day, and what it meant to be a woman. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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“Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?” (