![]() ![]() The voices of four women narrate "The Dovekeepers," so named for the work they're each assigned: Tending the doves that provide Masada with food, fertilizer and hope.īeautiful Yael, whose bright red hair kindles lust in men's hearts, arrives last but speaks first. ![]() "The stories of women have often gone unwritten," Hoffman writes in her acknowledgments, "and 'The Dovekeepers' is my attempt to imagine those stories" and "give voice to those who have remained silent for so long." ![]() It's therefore no surprise that Hoffman focuses on the overlooked and the forgotten in "The Dovekeepers," her sprawling new novel about the siege of Masada, the fortress where a beleaguered first-century Jewish community made its final stand against the mighty Roman Empire. In "The Probable Future," novelist Alice Hoffman suggests that "history was made of the smallest details." ![]()
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