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The weight of ink
- Title
- The weight of ink / Rachel Kadish.
- Author
- Kadish, Rachel
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-6900 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 567 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Jewish fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-6900
- ISBN
- 9780544866461
- 0544866460
- LCCN
- 2017003440
- OCLC
- 2017003440
- Author
- Kadish, Rachel, author.
- Title
- The weight of ink / Rachel Kadish.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kadish, Rachel. Weight of ink Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 9780544866676 (DLC) 2017010659
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-6900