The Weight of Ink
  • Published:
    Jun-2017 (Hardcover)
    May-2018 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Time Period:
    17th Century
  • Pages:
    592
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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 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.

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 to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.
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    • May-2018
    • Mariner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1328915786
    • ISBN13: 9781328915788
    • First Edition
    • Jun-2017
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0544866460
    • ISBN13: 9780544866461
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0544866673
    • ISBN13: 9780544866676
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • Mariner Books
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • Text Publishing
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1925774147
    • ISBN13: 9781925774146
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • Highbridge Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1681686317
    • ISBN13: 9781681686318
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jun-2017
    • HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
    • Audible
    •  
    • Sep-2017
    • Highbridge Audio
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1509459677
    • ISBN13: 9781509459674
    • Library Binding



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