Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
WINER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOK AWARDA USA TODAY BESTSELER
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.
Kadish, Rachel: - RACHEL KADISH is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, and of the novella I Was Here. Her work has appeared on NPR and in The New York Times, Ploughshares, and Tin House.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780544866461 |
| ISBN 10 | 0544866460 |
| Title | Weight of Ink |
| Author | Rachel Kadish |
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| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2017-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
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