The Weight of Ink

The Weight of InkCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781925773286 Format: B format paperback Year: 2018 Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Description: An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for fans of A. S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks' 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

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925773286
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2018
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company


Description:
An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for fans of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks' 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.




When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of newly discovered seventeenth-century Jewish documents, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and embarks on one last project- to determine the identity of the documents' scribe, the elusive "Aleph."




Electrifying and ambitious, The Weight of Ink is about women separated by centuries - and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.