The weight of ink

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The work The weight of ink represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The weight of ink

Statement of responsibility

Rachel Kadish

Creator

• Kadish, Rachel

Author

• Kadish, Rachel

Subject

• Historical fiction
• Jewish fiction
• Jewish women
• Jewish women -- Fiction
• Religious fiction
• Fiction
• Women historians -- Fiction
• Women historians
• Historical fiction

Genre

• Jewish fiction
• Religious fiction
• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

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, 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"--
• 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."

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

LDL

Dewey number

813.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3561.A358

LC item number

W45 2017

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography