Picador USA</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><b>A <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller</b></p><p>A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition of <i>The Red Tent</i>.</p><p>Her name is Dinah. In the Bible her 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.</p><p>Told in Dinah's voice Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It 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.</p><p>Deeply affecting <i>The Red Tent</i> combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's lives.</p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing?? menses?? and even illne" Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent?? this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter?? Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis)?? we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice?? Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers?? Rachel?? Leah?? Zilpah?? and Bilhah--all wives to Jacob?? and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles?? slave