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The Seventh Gate |
| In the preface to his internationally bestselling novel, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler told how he discovered seven 16th-Century manuscripts in an Istanbul cellar written by a kabbalist named Berekiah Zarco. One of them described the Lisbon pogrom of 1506, and Zimler’s re-working of the narrative became The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon. But what did the other six reveal? |
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Guardian of the Dawn |
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From the highly acclaimed author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and Hunting Midnight comes a sweeping tale of persecution, devotion and vengeance in colonial Goa .
By the time the 16 th century was drawing to a close in the Portuguese colony of Goa , the Catholic Inquisition was making excellent progress. ‘Sorcerers' – whether native Hindus or immigrant Jews – who refused to betray others or give up their beliefs were either strangled by executioners or burnt alive in public autos-da-fé .
The Zarco family manages to stick firm to its Portuguese-Jewish roots until, as the children reach adulthood, both father and son are betrayed to the Inquisition. Gradually, the truth of the family's destruction is revealed. The consequences are devastating.
Impeccably researched, Guardian of the Dawn is both a riveting historical mystery and, in its exploration of the nature of evil, a powerful reinterpretation of Othello. This is Richard Zimler at his imaginative, energetic – and insightful – best. |
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Hunting Midnight |
| From the internationally bestselling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a novel of incomparable scope and beauty, which takes the reader on an epic journey from war-ravaged 19th century Europe to antebellum America. In lush, luminous prose, Richard Zimler has written a dazzling work of historical fiction, played out against a backdrop of war and chaos, that unforgettably mines the mysteries of devotion, betrayal, guilt and forgiveness.(...) |
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The Search for Sana |
In February 2000, Richard Zimler went to the Perth Writers’ Festival and met a talented dancer who told him how much his novel The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon had meant to her. The tragic step she would take the next day would change Zimler´s life forever, and launch him into an intense, three-year investigation of her past.
He uncovers the story of two girls – one Palestinian, one Israeli – as he led through 1950s Haifa, through a web of illusion and deceit and finally to September 11, 2001, when the tragedy he witnessed in Perth is set in the starkest of political contexts.
The Search for Sana blurs the conventional boundaries between fact and fiction as it examines the nature of true friendship, and the inception of an unthinkable crime. Written by the author of bestsellers about Jewish culture and history, it is also a moving exploration of issues that affect us all. |
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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon |
| The year is 1506, and the streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a naked girl at his side. Abraham was a renowned kabbalist, a practitioner of the arcane mysteries of Jewish mysticism at a time when the Jews of Portugal were forced to convert to Christianity. Berekiah, a talented young manuscript illuminator, investigates his beloved uncle’s murder, and discovers in the kabbalah clues that lead him deep into the labyrinth of secrets in which the Jews of Portugal sought to hide from their persecutors.(...) |
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