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The weight of ink : a novel / Rachel Kadish.

Kadish, Rachel, (author.). James, Corrie, (narrator.). HighBridge Audio (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781681686325
  • ISBN: 1681686325
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (23 hr., 23 min.)
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [Minneapolis, MN] : Highbridge Audio, 2017.

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Participant or Performer Note:
Narrated by Corrie James.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed July 17, 2017).
Subject: Women historians > Fiction.
Jewish women > Fiction.
FICTION > General.
Jewish women.
Women historians.
Genre: Downloadable audio books.
Audiobooks.
Fiction.
Audiobooks.

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