Over five years in the writing,
The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffmanâs most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel.
In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffmanâs novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Yaelâs mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village bakerâs wife, watched the horrifically brutal murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Aziza is a warriorâs daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and an expert marksman who finds passion with a fellow soldier. Shirah, born in Alexandria, is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power.
The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secretsâabout who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffmanâs masterpiece.
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- Literature & Fiction
- Jewish
- Literature & Fiction
Publisher : Scribner
Author : Hoffman, Alice
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2012-04-03
Number Of Pages : 528
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1451617488
ISBN-13 : 9781451617481
Item weight : 0.94 lb
Dimensions : 1.54 in x 5.2 in x 7.99 in
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