The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition: A Novel

Anita Diamant

Apr 2010 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

About this ebook

In this modern classic interpretation of the biblical story of Dinah, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of The Red Tent, a New York Times bestseller and the basis of the A&E/Lifetime mini-series.

Twentieth Anniversary Edition

In the Bible, Dinah's 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.

The Red Tent 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 and the valuable achievement of presenting a new view of biblical women's lives.

Ratings and reviews

I'm all for expounding on Scripture to make a story come alive, but this was a gross abuse of creative control, not to mention vulgar with a stale plot.

This is a book that I really did not want to read, and I avoided it like the plague. Finally, I had nothing else to read. Well, this book has become one of my all-time favorites! This is a story about mothers and daughters and men and women and children and sex and food. What more could you want? It is a real slice of life - the good and the bad and the ugly. UNFORGETTABLE!!!!

Great story, love it BUT so far it is missing 3 PAGES!!! Pg's 263 to 265! I am not happy and I dare not BUY any more books, lest this happen again! :( :( * * * And now I have discovered that it is missing yet 3 MORE PAGES!! :( :( This is SO StUpiD!

About the author

Anita Diamant is the author of The Red Tent, a word-of-mouth bestseller and the Booksense Best Fiction selection. She is also 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 several 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.