The weight of ink
(Book)
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
ISBN:
9780544866461, 0544866460
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2nd Floor- Adult Books
FIC KADISH R.
Description
WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER 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, 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.  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 make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.
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Book
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567 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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Kadish, R. (2017). The weight of ink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kadish, Rachel. 2017. The Weight of Ink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kadish, Rachel, The Weight of Ink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kadish, Rachel. The Weight of Ink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Print.
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