The Weight of Ink
Rachel Kadish
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 reconcile the life of the heart and mind.
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 reconcile the life of the heart and mind.
年:
2017
出版商:
HMH Books
語言:
english
ISBN:
B01I4FPLUG
文件:
AZW3 , 1.11 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017
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