| Description |
567 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"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, 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 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Women historians -- Fiction.
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Jewish women -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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FICTION -- Literary.
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FICTION -- Historical.
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FICTION -- Jewish.
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Women historians. (OCoLC)fst01177742
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Jewish women. (OCoLC)fst00983062
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| Genre/Form |
Jewish fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780544866461 hardcover |
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0544866460 hardcover |
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