The weight of ink : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781681686325
- ISBN: 1681686325
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (23 hr., 23 min.) - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Minneapolis, MN] : Highbridge Audio, 2017.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Corrie James. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed July 17, 2017). |
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Subject: | Women historians -- Fiction Jewish women -- Fiction FICTION -- General Jewish women Women historians |
Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. Fiction. Audiobooks. |
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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.