The Red Tent

The Red Tent

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'My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing. That is why I became a footnote, my story a brief detour between the well-known history of my father Jacob, and the celebrated chronicle of Joseph, my brother.' Lost to the history by the chronicles of men, here at last is the dazzling story of Dinah, Jacob's only daughter in the Book of Genesis. Moving panoramically from Mesopotamia to Canaan to Egypt, The Red Tent is robustly narrated by Dinah, from her upbringing by the four wives of Jacob, to her growth into one of the most influential women of her time. Seeking to preserve not only her own remarkable experiences but those of a long-ago era of womanhood left largely undocumented by the original male scribes and later Biblical scholars, Dinah breaks a male silence that has lasted for centuries, revealing the ancient origins of many contemporary religious practices and sexual politics. The result is a beautiful, thought-provoking novel.

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  Reviewed by Rebecca L. | see all reviews by Rebecca L.

  19/08/2010

  This is one of the most amazing novels I have ever read, a must for every young women to embrace her inner power- the divine Feminine and the beauty in the rhythms of her body from child the womanhood. A joy and to read
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  Reviewed by cherie b. | see all reviews by cherie b.

  15/11/2010

  Really interesting, a great read.
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