Snakesleeper

About the Book

With chutzpah and literary grace,” said the reviewer in The Salt Lake Tribune, “Ann Chamberlin re-creates King David’s court” in this novel of biblical history. “Reminiscent of. . . Mary Renault or Marion Zimmer Bradley,” said Of a Like Mind magazine. David’s rise to power beckons Tamar’s mother to leave her temple, her priestess tradition and her first marriage to join the king’s growing harem. Traveling with her, young Tamar gains the ancient gift of hearing the whispers of sacred serpents, the will of the Goddess. The conflict between her Goddess and David’s single God grows into a battle for the holy land, for succession, for souls, for love. For life itself.

About the Author

Ann Chamberlin worked on the excavation of the biblical city of Beersheva and traveled throughout the Middle East. She reads Hebrew, Arabic, Egyptian hieroglyphs and ancient Akkadian as well as English, French and German. She is the author of ten published historical novels including a trilogy set in sixteenth-century Turkey which spent over a year on the Turkish bestseller list. A nonfiction HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SECLUSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST is due out in September 2006. Her plays have been produced across the country. JIHAD, produced in New York City in both 1996 and 2000, won The Off-Off Broadway Review’s best new play of the year.