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The weight of ink / Rachel Kadish.

Kadish, Rachel (author.).

Summary:

"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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781328915788 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 575 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Mariner Books edition
  • Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes: Reading group guide ; Q&A with Rachel Kadish.
Subject: Women historians > England > London > Fiction.
Manuscripts > Collectors and collecting > Fiction.
Literary historians > Fiction.
Scribes > Jewish > Fiction.
Jewish women > Fiction
Jewish History > Fiction
Jewish historians > Fiction
Rabbis > Fiction
Scribes > Fiction
Women historians
Women > England > Social conditions > 17th century > Fiction.
Plague > England > London > History > 17th century > Fiction.
London (England) > Intellectual life > 17th century > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > 1660-1714 > Fiction.
Jewish fiction
Historical fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 12 of 17 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rossland Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 3 current holds with 17 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Rossland Public Library FIC KAD (Text) 35162001010641 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Anahim Lake Branch KAD (Text) 33923006534105 Adult Fiction Volume hold In transit -
Burns Lake Public Library AF KAD (Text)
Donation: 2022
35198000741992 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort St. John Public Library AF KAD (Text) 35211000603201 ADULT Fiction Volume hold Available -
Grand Forks FIC KAD (Text) 35142002665726 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Hudson's Hope Public Library FIC FIC KAD (Text) BHH046192 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Invermere Public Library FIC KAD (Text) IPL060858 Adult Fiction Volume hold Checked out 2024-05-17
Kitimat Public Library Kad (Text) 32665002131656 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Lillooet Branch AF KAD (Text) 35180000388529 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
McBride Fic Kad (Text) 35191000312682 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -


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