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Siegal Lifelong Learning will facilitate an in-depth discussion on Rachel Kadish's The Weight of Ink.
Rachel Kadish weaves an extraordinary mystery in The Weight of Ink, when Helen Watt, an ailing scholar of Jewish history, is asked to examine a treasure trove of seventeenth century documents apparently untouched for three centuries in an old London house. Watts and her assistance, Aaron Levy, are an unlikely pair of literary detectives. This detailed historical epic offers a surprisingly gripping storyline. We will explore how Kadish straddles two time periods, the year 2000 and the 1660s. The Weight of Ink follows most explicitly in the footsteps of A.S. Byatt’s Possession, combining a contemporary narrative about two historians with the contents of a cache of documents found under a staircase.
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