The weight of ink / Rachel Kadish.
Record details
- ISBN: 0544866460
- ISBN: 9780544866461
- ISBN: 9780544866461 : HRD
- ISBN: 0544866460 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780544866461
- ISBN: 0544866460
- Physical Description: 567 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary, etc.: | "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 make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind"-- Provided by publisher. Ester Velasquez is an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city. Helen Watt is an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming. 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." |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Women historians > Fiction. Jewish women > Fiction. |
Genre: | Jewish fiction. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 30 of 30 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Silas Bronson Library.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 30 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC KADISH, R (Text) | 34005107076274 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |