The book focuses on four women who have each walked a different path to get to atlit. Named a best book of the year by the washington post and the salt lake tribune just as she gave voice to the silent women of the hebrew bible in the red tent, anita diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid charactersyoung women who escaped to israel from nazi europein this intensely. The red tent 20th anniversary edition ebook by anita diamant. A part of little known history, involving jewish interment in a holding camp called atlit in israel by english forces is the premise of day after night by anita diamant. Read the red tent 20th anniversary edition a novel by anita diamant available from rakuten kobo. Anita diamant books, ebooks, audiobooks, biography barnes.
Dinahs story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an. Anita diamant is the bestselling author of the novels the red tent, good harbor, and. An awardwinning journalist whose work appeared in the boston globe magazine and parenting, she is the author of six nonfiction guides to contemporary jewish life. This song of survival and dealing with atroicities rings true thoughtout this novel. She is also the author of the novels good harbor, the last days of dogtown and day after night, a collection of essays, pitching my tent, as well as six books. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Day after night is a devastatingly beautiful novel, a story only anita diamant could tell, and it will make every reader weep. Day after night by anita diamant named a best book of the year by the washington post and the salt lake tribune just as she gave voice to the silent. They make their way to the land of israel where they confront an uncertain. Atlit is a holding camp for illegal immigrants in israel in 1945. Anita diamant, the bestselling author of the red tent, turns her attention from biblical narrative to the story of a decidedly more modern group of jewish women. Read day after night a novel by anita diamant available from rakuten kobo. Although the red tent is her more famous novel, the first anita diamant book ive read is day after night. Set in 1945, in the summer immediately following the end of world war ii in europe, day after night tells the stories of four young jewish womensurvivors of four different kinds of hell. Set in 1945, in the summer immediately following the end of world war ii in europe, day after night tells the stories of four young jewish womensurvivors of.