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Oct 4, 2011 · Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's 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.
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Apr 3, 2012 · The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel: “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).
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The Dovekeepers is a historical fiction based on the siege of Masada, where four women survive the Roman invasion. The novel explores their stories, secrets, and magic in a mesmerizing and ambitious work by Alice Hoffman.
Oct 13, 2011 · Only two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic event, Alice Hoffman weaves a spellbinding story about the lives of four bold and remarkable women during desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near.
Oct 4, 2011 · Alice Hoffman weaves fiction and fact in The Dovekeepers, a thrilling, passionate saga of four women who come together to tend the doves in Masada. Hoffman's fiction is always compelling, but the history within The Dovekeepers makes this novel haunting. Read more.
Oct 21, 2011 · The novel is Alice Hoffman’s latest book, “The Dovekeepers,” which attempts to retell the story of the Jewish resistance during the Roman siege of Masada in the first century.
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 in the Judean desert.
