I loved this book! Set in 70 CE, this book tells the story of the Masada massacre and how 900 Jews held out for months against the Roman legion. The narrators of this tale are four women, who each have their own heroic story of how they got to Masada and the role they play in the battle. The stor...
The Dovekeepers is the story of the fortress of Masada, Israel in 70AD. Nine hundred Jewish rebels and their families are sheltering from the Roman army, Jersualem and their way of life already destroyed. Amongst these nine hundred Jews are four women, who together tell the story of life before an...
The authorAlice Hoffman was born in New York City on March 16, 1952 and grew up on Long Island. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, whic...
Like Bradley's feminist take on Camelot in Mists of Avalon, in Dovekeepers Hoffman provides a feminist lens on events surrounding the fall of Masada. Beautifully written!
Alice Hoffman has written a book tracing the lives of four women who took care of the Doves at Masada. Briefly, Shahir, an outcast, is the Witch of Moab, Revka has committed murder, Yael is pregnant with a child from another woman’s husband and Aziza, daughter of Shahir, is a warrior who was raised ...
I could not for the life of me connect with this book. I really tried but I really didn't enjoy the story line nor the characters. Unfortunately, I found myself finishing it because it was a group read versus the story. I know I am not the norm on this though.
The story of four incredible women living during the conquest of the Jews by Romans. Historical storytelling at its best, told through the eyes of women, who are often forgotten in historical records. Alice Hoffman gives these women a voice, sharing the joys, grief, love, betrayal, and magic of th...
El libro tiene buen ritmo y un tema llamativo, pero no pude dejar de pensar en que un lenguaje mas simple hubiera quedado mejor para este tipo de historia. Demasiados adornos nunca son buenos, especialmente cuando estas esperando ver quien se muere y quien no.
I rarely make use of the word "epic" because it's been so overused in the past couple of years but that's the word that keeps coming to mind when I think of how to describe this story...epic. Four women with four incredible stories, all leading to the same place, literally, figuratively and spiritu...
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