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An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s The People of the Book
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<div><b>WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD<br> A <i>USA TODAY</i> BESTSELLER<br><br> "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison</b><br><br> Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, <i>The Weight of Ink</i> 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. <br> <br> 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."<br> <br> Electrifying and ambitious, <i>The Weight of Ink</i> 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. </div>
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