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Tracy Farber, 33, happily single and headed for tenure at a major university, sets out to prove that happiness and the search for happiness can be, must be, a complicated mission. Little does she know that her best proof will come when she meets George, who will challenge all of her old assumptions.

In this affecting, perceptive novel, Rachel Kadish reflects on the ghosts of the past, the tensions of war, and the difficult bonds of family. When Maya enrolls at Hebrew University in Jerusalem shortly after the Gulf War, she hopes to leave New York and a fraught relationship with her mother behind her. In Israel, she gets to know her older cousin Tami, a housewife whose home has a room sealed against the war's Scud missile attacks. Like Maya, Tami feels distanced from the people closest to her -- her mother, her husband, her only son. But it will ultimately be Maya's visits with Shifra, an...

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...

Fascynującą powieść historyczna o dwóch kobietach, które rozdzieliły stulecia, oraz o wyborach i poświęceniach, jakich są zmuszone dokonać, aby osiągnąć w życiu harmonię serca i umysłu.Osadzona w Londynie lat sześćdziesiątych XVII wieku oraz współcześnie, powieść splata losy dwóch kobiet o nieprzeciętnym intelekcie: Ester Velasquez, emigrantki z Amsterdamu, która na krótko przed epidemią dżumy zostaje skrybą niewidomego rabina, oraz Helen Watt, chorej profesor historii zafascynowanej spuścizną żydowską.Poznajemy Helen, gdy ta zostaje poproszona przez...