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The Rape of Tamar by Dan Jacobson

leia_lynn's review

2.0

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.