539 BCE. Less than fifty years after the people of Judah are marched into captivity in Babylon, four children, two of them bitter enemies, are thrown together in a terrifying struggle for survival when the Babylonian Empire is conquered by the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
Christopher Farrar is the author of By the Waters of Babylon, a historical novel that tells the story of Ya’el, a twelve-year-old girl captured and deported by the soldiers of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar when he defeated and destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BCE.
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