Alice Hoffman presents her novel The Dovekeepers, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel. In 70 CE, 900 Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic event, Hoffman weaves a spellbinding tale of four extraordinary, bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Hoffmann is the author of Here on Earth.
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