The weight of ink
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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, 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 makein order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind"--
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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.
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