The Weight of Ink
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The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDA 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.
RACHEL KADISH is the author of the novella I Was Here and the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story. Her writing has been featured on NPR as well as in publications such as the New York Times, Ploughshares, and Tin House. She currently resides in the Boston region.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781328915788 |
| ISBN 10 | 1328915786 |
| Title | The Weight of Ink |
| Author | Rachel Kadish |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company |
| Year published | 2018-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 592 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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