ANITA DIAMANT

When Addie Baum''s 22-year old granddaughter asks her about her childhood, Addie realises the moment has come to relive the full history that shaped her. Addie Baum was a Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant Jewish parents who lived a very modest life. But Addie''s intelligence and curiosity propelled her to a more modern path. Addie wanted to finish high school and to go to college. She wanted a career, to find true love. She wanted to escape the confines of her family. And she did. Told against the backdrop of World War I, and written with the same immense emotional impact that has made Diamant''s previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman''s complicated life in the early 20th Century, and a window into the lives of all women seeking to understand the world around them.

Anita DiamantAtlit is a holding camp for illegal immigrants in Israel in 1945. There, about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant, with infinite compassion and understanding, tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Shayndel is a Polish Zionist who fought the Germans with a band of partisans. Leonie is a Parisian beauty. Tedi is Dutch, a strapping blond who wants only to forget. Zorah survived Auschwitz. Haunted by unspeakable memories and too many losses to bear, these young women, along with a stunning cast of supporting characters who work in or pass through Atlit, begin to find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience, as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves and discovering a way to live again.

Su nombre era Diná y en la Biblia apenas se la menciona para referirse a un violento suceso de venganza que protagonizaron su padre, Jacob, y sus hermanos Simeón y Leví. Única hija mujer de Jacob entre los numerosos varones que este tuvo con Lia, su primera mujer, y con sus otras tres esposas, Zilpa, Raquel y Bilha, todas ellas hijas de Laban, Dina relata de viva voz su propia historia en lo que supone una autentica evocacion del mundo femenino en la epoca del Antiguo Testamento. En aquellos tiempos, las tradiciones, las historias familiares y los conocimientos en general se perpetuaban de generacion en generacion por medio del linaje materno. Y el trasvase de toda esta sabiduria tenia lugar en la tienda roja, espacio donde se recluian las mujeres cuando no podian aparecer ante los ojos de los hombres, durante los dias del ciclo femenino, despues de los partos y en momentos de enfermedad. Alli, Dina explicara las historias de sus cuatro madres, a partir del dia en que Jacob aparecio en las tierras de su tio Laban, asi como el azaroso traslado de su familia desde la Mesopotamia hasta Canaan, y mas tarde su emigracion a Egipto.Pero La tienda roja no es simplemente una reconstruccion del libro del Genesis desde el punto de vista de la mujer, sino una novela historica minuciosamente investigada que nos introduce en el riquisimo mundo de las tradiciones mas ancestrales. Todo un acopio de normas y conductas imprescindibles para la supervivencia en tierras aridas y desoladas que, ademas de constituir la base de las religiones judeocristianas, siguen vigentes en algunos rincones del mundo hasta el dia de hoy.Una novela viva e intensa... Seria tentador decir que La tienda roja es lo que la Biblia podria haber sido si hubiera sido escrita por mujeres, pero tan solo Diamant habria podido dotarla de tanta profundidad y gracia. The Boston Globe

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 are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-working youth, 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 with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's society.

Um livro emocionante que traz poderosas lições de amor, perdão e sororidade e que deu origem à série da Netflix. Narrado por Dinah, filha de Jacó, na Bíblia, este romance revela as tradições e as tur