The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman

Written by Alice Hoffman
Read by Aya Cash, Jessica Hecht, Tovah Feldshuh
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 48 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher:Recorded Books, Inc.
Release Date;10/27/2011
Duration:19:02:07

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. 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 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 warrior’s 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.

. “Beautiful, harrowing, a major contribution to twenty-first century literature.”-Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate in Literature