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The Dovekeepers

The Dovekeepers

Feldshuh, Tovah
Hoffman, Alice
Cash, Aya

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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1442381574
ISBN13: 9781442381575
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: Mar 17 2015
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
An ambitious and mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is striking....Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose (Entertainment Weekly).

Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain fortress in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman's novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Yael's mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village baker's wife, watched the murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Aziza is a warrior's daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and 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 Roman siege of Masada. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets--about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.

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