{"product_id":"dovekeepers","title":"Dovekeepers","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDovekeepers\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAlice Hoffman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781451617481\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eScribner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e528\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ambitious and mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRules of Magic. The Dovekeepers \u003c\/i\u003eis \"striking....Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain fortress 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 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the Roman siege of Masada. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets--about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Dovekeepers | Alice Hoffman | Paperback | 9781451617481 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1719840 (temp: 10)","offer_id":48753959338136,"sku":"1719840","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Dovekeepers | Alice Hoffman | Paperback | 9781451617481 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks C 1758260","offer_id":49178441351320,"sku":"1758260","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71kOqJ-3KAL.jpg?v=1774070803","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/dovekeepers","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}