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Title: Simply Awful
Review: The author clearly betrays her lack of familiarity with the times and customs of places she describes. The characters are caricatures of the persons from the Bible. The prose is also awkward. The fact that some of the plot contradicts the biblical text is,I suppose, poetic license. Too bad Diamant is no poet. How can anybody like this book?If you want good and well written novels on biblical themes, try Paulo Cuelho's "Fifth Mountain" or Lion Feuchtwanger's "Jafteh and his daughter".Mann's "Joseph and his brothers" is a much better treatment of the Jacob's family saga than "the red tent"
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