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The Weight of Ink - An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers ofA. S. Byatts Possession and Geraldine Brookss 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 elusiveAleph. Electrifying and ambitious, sweeping in scope and intimate in tone, The Weight of Ink is a sophisticatedwork of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must makein orderreconcile the life of the heart and mind.
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⚡️Book Title : The Weight of Ink
⚡Book Author : Rachel Kadish
⚡Page : 560 pages
⚡Published June 6th 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published June 1st 2017)
Online Reading The Weight of Ink
⚡️Book Title : The Weight of Ink
⚡Book Author : Rachel Kadish
⚡Page : 560 pages
⚡Published June 6th 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published June 1st 2017)
The Weight of Ink
An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers ofA. S. Byatts Possession and Geraldine Brookss 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 elusiveAleph. Electrifying and ambitious, sweeping in scope and intimate in tone, The Weight of Ink is a sophisticatedwork of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must makein orderreconcile the life of the heart and mind.
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