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 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.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes: Reading group guide ; Q&A with Rachel Kadish. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 15 of 17 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rossland Public Library. (Show)
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- 2 current holds with 17 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Rossland Public Library | FIC KAD (Text) | 35162001010641 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Anahim Lake Branch | KAD (Text) | 33923006534105 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-06-11 |
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 | Available | - |
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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