Sorry I haven't posted in a while but this is a pretty long book - and a pretty deep read. Alice Hoffman tells the story of the last days of Masada through the eyes of four women - Yael, Shirah, Revka, and Aziza - the dovekeepers. The book is broken into sections, each told from one of the women's perspectives, beginning and ending with Yael.
I knew of Masada before I read this book, but I didn't know the entire story. I looked it up when I finished and Hoffman keeps quite close to the actual story, she just makes it a lot more personal, and gives back stories and histories for the people who were there. We in fact learn the story of how each of these women came to be at Masada in these last days, and how the Roman attacks all over the region impacted them.
This isn't exactly a happy story - if you know about Masada you know that. But it is a story with power, and it is a story of personal strength, of love, and of survival. I found it truly moving.
http://www.amazon.com/Dovekeepers-Novel-Alice-Hoffman/dp/145161747X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321800190&sr=1-1
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