Yael was born with bright red hair which attracts unwanted attention, and as a result she has learned to keep to herself. Her father was an assassin, killing political opponents. Yael’s mother died in childbirth, and she knows her father blames her for this, and has always resented her. Yael reflects on the events in Jerusalem where the Romans moved troops into the city to subdue the rebelling Jews, driving her and her father out of their house along with many of their neighbors, leaving Jerusalem empty and abandoned behind them.
The story opens with Yael, a young Jewish woman, telling the story of how she came to be wandering the desert with her father, Yosef, and a man named Ben Simon, his wife Sia, and their family. A work of historical fiction, it is set during the first Roman-Jewish War in the first century CE the famous siege of the fortress of Masada is a major component of the plot.
The Dovekeepers is a novel by Alice Hoffman, published in 2011.
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