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WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."--Toni Morrison Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of newly discovered seventeenth-century Jewish documents, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe, the elusive "Aleph." Electrifying and ambitious, The Weight of Ink is about women separated by centuries--and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.
Author: Rachel Kadish
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.30w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9781328915788
ISBN10: 1328915786
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Jewish
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."--Toni Morrison Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of newly discovered seventeenth-century Jewish documents, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe, the elusive "Aleph." Electrifying and ambitious, The Weight of Ink is about women separated by centuries--and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.
Author: Rachel Kadish
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.30w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9781328915788
ISBN10: 1328915786
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Jewish
About the Author
RACHEL KADISH is the award-winning author of the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, and the novella I Was Here. Her work has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and Tin House.