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Title: FICTION! not historically accurate!
Review: I agree with the voices who are displeased with this book. WHile Ms. D. is a talented writer, she did not research this book accurately at all. The book has a huge anti-male bias. In fact, the only men who are portrayed positively are Shechem (the rapist), Esav (a murderer she describes as a "baby-faced cutie") and Dina's eventual Egyptian lover. It is interesting to note that Ms. Diamant is married to a convert. Maybe she does't like Jewish men? (In her book they are all stupid, spaced-out, smelly, sexually selfish, and self-centered). I wish she would have read Genesis before writing this. It is completely fictional, and not at all reflective of what occurred, namely the rape of a CHILD! (Dina was 8 at the time)
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