Bibliograph

The weight of ink, Rachel Kadish

Type

Label

The weight of ink, Rachel Kadish

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The weight of ink

Oclc number

9537101431035639036

Responsibility statement

Rachel Kadish

Summary

"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."--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

general

Creator