The weight of ink
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017].
Format
Book
ISBN
9780544866461, 0544866460, 9781328915788, 1328915786
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567 pages ; 24 cm
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017].
Language
English
ISBN
9780544866461, 0544866460, 9781328915788, 1328915786

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"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.
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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."

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kadish, R. (2017). The weight of ink . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kadish, Rachel. 2017. The Weight of Ink. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kadish, Rachel. The Weight of Ink Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kadish, Rachel. The Weight of Ink Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

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