Alice Hoffman's "The Dovekeepers'' is a splendid entertainment, a harrowing, thrilling, feminist historical novel fueled to fever pitch by a rich imagination a combination of good writing, affecting themes, and dramatic storytelling. It's an enthralling tale that lingers in the mind/5(K). The Dovekeepers is a novel set during and after the fall of Jerusalem (70 C.E.). The book covers a period of four years as the Romans waged war against the Jewish stronghold of Masada, claimed by a group rebels and their families. 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/5.
The difficulty with The Dovekeepers is that these moments of hope are too few and far between. The novel is much too long and, for most of its pages, its four protagonists suffer relentlessly. The Dovekeepers Page 1. Author: Alice Hoffman. Genres: Historical. Part One. Summer 70 C.E. The Assassin's Daughter. We came like doves across the desert. In a time when there was nothing but death, we were grateful for anything, and most grateful of all when we awoke to another day. Alice Hoffman's The Dovekeepers shows us a world where doves, in addition to serving day-to-day purposes, represent so much more. Along with their close cousin, the pigeon, doves make up the bird family Columbidae. And while they're often thought of as bright white birds, with over species, they actually come in all shapes and sizes.
The Dovekeepers, by contrast, is set in Judea in AD70, during the first Jewish-Roman war. In the years after the destruction of the Second Temple, some Jewish rebels and their families fled. The Dovekeepers is a novel set during and after the fall of Jerusalem (70 C.E.). The book covers a period of four years as the Romans waged war against the Jewish stronghold of Masada, claimed by a group rebels and their families. The Dovekeepers is a novel by Alice Hoffman, published in A work of historical fiction, it is set during the first Roman-Jewish War in the first century CE; the famous siege of the fortress of Masada is a major component of the plot. The story opens with Yael, a young Jewish woman, telling the story of how she came to be wandering the desert with her father, Yosef, and a man named Ben Simon, his wife Sia, and their family.
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