The weight of ink / Rachel Kadish.
Set in London in the mid-17th century 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."
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544866461
- ISBN: 0544866460
- ISBN: 9781328915788
- Physical Description: 567 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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| Subject: | Women historians > England > London > Fiction. Manuscripts > Collectors and collecting > Fiction. Literary historians > Fiction. Jewish women > Fiction. Scribes, Jewish > Fiction. Women > England > Social conditions > 17th century > Fiction. Plague > England > London > History > 17th century > Fiction. Women. Womyn. London (England) > Intellectual life > 17th century > Fiction. Great Britain > History > 1660-1714 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC KADISH (Text) | 36015000650370 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Richlands Branch Library | FIC KADISH (Text) | 36015001321955 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Swansboro Branch Library | FIC KADISH (Text) | 36015000824835 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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