TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kadish,Rachel
TI  - The weight of ink
SN  - 9780544866461 (hardback)
AV  - PS3561.A358 W45 2017
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Women historians
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - FICTION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - FICTION / Historical
KW  - FICTION / Jewish
KW  - Jewish fiction
KW  - tlcgt
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "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"--
ER  -