Rachel Kadish is the award-winning author of the novels The Weight of Ink, From a Sealed Room, and Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, as well as the novella I Was Here. Her work has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Ploughshares, Paris Review, and Tin House. She lives outside of Boston/5(K). The Weight of Ink is the third novel by American author, Rachel Kadish. In , nineteen-year-old Ester Velasquez and her brother Isaac accompanied Rabbi HaCoen Mendes from Amsterdam to London. The rabbi, tortured and blinded by Inquisitors, was going to minister to London’s Jewish community; the siblings had just been orphaned in a house fire. 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 s 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 /5(4K).
Join us for a discussion with acclaimed author Rachel Kadish about her novel The Weight of Ink — a literary page-turner about two women living centuries apar. by Rachel Kadish. Published: Paperback: pages. 16 members reading this now 57 clubs reading this now 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. 5/5 Rachel Kadish's The Weight of Ink is simply my favorite read of Its basic structure consists of two alternating narratives. The first, taking place in London in the late seventeenth century, contain the writings of Ester Velasquez, a young Sephardic Jew who was born in Portugal, grew up Amsterdam, and finally is brought to London as.
The Weight of Ink. New York, First Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company), In , an unknown narrator in Richmond admits to having lied, and wishes to begin anew. The writer, believing no one will read his/her words, seeks to pay tribute to a man who has been betrayed. 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 s 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. SYNOPSIS. The Weight of Ink opens with a blunt and brilliant Jewish historian Helen Watt, as she prepares for her retirement in London and struggles to wrap up her cleanup writing. Awaiting the.
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