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Reader reviews for The Red Tent
Review summary
Readers praised The Red Tent for its vivid, women-centered reimagining of Dinah’s story, highlighting immersive worldbuilding and lyrical prose that make ancient life feel tangible. Many admired its celebration of female bonds and the red tent as a sacred women’s space. Criticism clustered around its historical and biblical liberties, sexual frankness, and a narrative some felt hewed too closely to scripture before an unevenly original final third. The result is a moving yet polarizing read, embraced by many and deemed awkward or merely okay by others, especially in religious contexts.
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- Title The Red Tent
- Author Anita Diamant
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 321
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Picador USA, New York
- Publication date 1997
- ISBN 9780312195519 / 0312195516
- Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.2 x 0.88 in (23.27 x 15.75 x 2.24 cm)
- Reading level 1010
- Category Fiction - Religious
- Library of Congress subjects Religious fiction, Women in the Bible
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98030122
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
