I am convinced I heard my father's roar of grief. I was taken from my mother's womb, cut out with a sharp knife. "In that moment the map of my life arose upon my skin in a burst of red marks. Yael is the daughter of a Sicarii assassin and a mother who died before giving birth to her. The women of the dovecote, each in her own way, violate Jewish laws. Unfolding in the years before the siege, the novel portrays Masada's occupiers as a contentious and diverse group, many of them embittered by grief. Not until 72 did the Roman army besiege Masada. Refugees from Jerusalem joined them after Romans destroyed the Second Temple in the year 70. Jewish rebels first came to Masada around 66 A.D. A strikingly different portrayal of the Siege of Masada, The Dovekeepers focuses on the lives of four fictional women, workers in the dovecote, among the Jews occupying Herod's abandoned fortress.
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