The Weight of Ink

De: Rachel Kadish

Narrado por: Hannah Curtis, Josh Bloomberg

WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

"A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison

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.

©2017 Rachel Kadish (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

A beautiful work!

I loved it all. Fabulous writing. I want to read more by her but doubt her other writings could be superior to this one.

Living through the great London plague

I liked the history of the problems still faced by women longing to be heard.I appreciated the details of the London plague and the parallels to our recent pandemic.

Complicated dual timeline story

The author beautifully describes characters, places and events. The book drags on and becomes tedious in part due to descriptive passages.