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Title	:	The Rape of Tamar
Author	:	Dan Jacobson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 144 pages
Published	:	1973 by Penguin Books (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Biblical

The Rape of Tamar

Dan Jacobson

Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

Rating: 3.29 | 24 Users | 5 Reviews

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Dan Jacobson retells the age-old, biblical story of the rape of King David’s daughter by her brother Amnon. Out of this material he creates a tragic and sardonically humorous novel, wholly modern in spirit and yet true to the time in which it is set. On first publication, The Rape of Tamar was hailed as a masterpiece.

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Original Title:	The rape of Tamar
ISBN:	014003580X (ISBN13: 9780140035803)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.29 From 24 Users | 5 Reviews

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Absolutely magnificient...

Can Jacobson can be a good writer, but hardly can propose a good narrator.

This book handles rape in an incredibly callous way, treating the victim as merely a pawn and the men responsible for using her as the heroes of the story. The author clearly does not understand the mindset of a rape victim at all. The language and writing is beautiful, but the treatment of the titular character and situation is insensitive to an offensive degree. If this was meant as an irony, it does not come through in the writing.

Not terrible, but adds so little and is told in a rambling way. I haven't decided if I like the narrator's fourth-wall tone or not.

This book leapt off the dusty top shelf at me just after I'd heard a sermon on the rape of Tamar from our female church minister, who had focused on Tamar having been told to keep her mouth shut, and the same thing happening to women down the ages. It struck me (the idea, not the book) that the version I had was probably going to have a different focus, as it was written by a man. It did. It is a satire of court and political life. The 'voice' is that of a disenchanted courtier who is ambitious



Dan Jacobson (born March 7, 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist. He has lived in Great Britain for most of his adult life, and for many years held a professorship in the English Department at University College London. He has also spent periods as a visiting writer or a guest-professor at universities in the United States, Australia, and South