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REVIEWS: The Weight of
Ink
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Kirkus
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WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD. 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.
Characters: 111. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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