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The weight of ink / Rachel Kadish.

Kadish, Rachel, (author.).

Summary:

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.
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.

Available copies

  • 26 of 30 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 3 of 3 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 30 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
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 -