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The Weight of Ink

The Weight of Ink
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592
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0.48 kg
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978-1-328-91578-8
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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.

"A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."-Toni Morrison
Солидный и немного старомодный бестселлер американской писательницы Рейчел Кадиш включает три временных линии. Роман охватывает три исторических периода - возвращение евреев в Англию в 17 веке при Кромвеле, построение Израиля в начале 50-х годов нашего века и работу современных историков. Основная линия особенно интересна: несмотря на то, что основные герои вымышлены, она охватывает немало реальных событий (проклятие Бенедикта Спинозы общиной голландских евреев, чума в Лондоне) и философских дебатов этого периода.
Solidnyj i nemnogo staromodnyj bestseller amerikanskoj pisatelnitsy Rejchel Kadish vkljuchaet tri vremennykh linii. Roman okhvatyvaet tri istoricheskikh perioda - vozvraschenie evreev v Angliju v 17 veke pri Kromvele, postroenie Izrailja v nachale 50-kh godov nashego veka i rabotu sovremennykh istorikov. Osnovnaja linija osobenno interesna: nesmotrja na to, chto osnovnye geroi vymyshleny, ona okhvatyvaet nemalo realnykh sobytij (prokljatie Benedikta Spinozy obschinoj gollandskikh evreev, chuma v Londone) i filosofskikh debatov etogo perioda.
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9781328915788
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