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008 181226s2017 mau g 000 1 eng d
020 $a9780544866461 (hbk.) :$cUSD28.00
040 $aDLC$beng$cTAE$dTWTNM
050 00$aPS3561.A358$bW45 2017
082 00$a813/.54$223
100 1 $aKadish, Rachel.
245 14$aThe weight of ink /$cRachel Kadish.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,$cc2017.
300 $a567 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, anemigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation. Enlisting the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and in a race with another fast-moving team of historians, Helen embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe, the elusive"Aleph."Electrifying and ambitious, sweeping in scope and intimate in tone, The Weight of Ink is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must makein order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aWomen historians$vFiction.
650 0$aJewish women$vFiction.