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Set in London in the 1660s and early twenty-first century, the novel interweaves the stories of two women: Esther Velasquez, a refugee from Amsterdam who became a scribe for a blind rabbi shortly before the plague struck London, and Professor Helen Watt, who, despite her age and failing health, still burns with a passion for history. When a former student invites Helen to examine a cache of accidentally discovered seventeenth-century documents, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an impatient but charming American graduate student, and embarks on the last project of her academic career: to discover the identity of a mysterious scribe who signs his name with the single letter "aleph". Despite the fact that the heroines are separated by centuries, both must make hard choices and sacrifices to reconcile the lives of heart and mind.
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