Richard Zimler

From the international best-selling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a dazzling new work of historical fiction. In the New Testament, we are told that Jesus resurrected a beloved friend named Lazarus from the dead. Missing from the Gospel is a description of how Jesus accomplished this miracle and if he had a special purpose for saving his companion.Acclaimed and best-selling historical novelist Richard Zimler takes up the tale, and through the eyes of the troubled Lazarus, recreates the story of the Passion. Returned to life, Lazarus has difficulties regaining his previous identity and confidence. His experience of death has left him fragile and disoriented. Worse still, he has seen nothing of any afterlife.As Lazarus turns more and more to Jesus for guidance and answers, watching as his friend's mystical powers grow, along with his cult, he finds that their lives are now politically and, therefore, dangerously entwined.In an often surprising and subtle portrayal, Zimler places Jesus in his historical context of ancient Jewish practise and traditions; at once a charismatic Rabbi and political activist, who used his knowledge of a transcendent reality - the Kingdom of Heaven - to bring justice and compassion to his time and place.Through Lazarus, Zimler makes the familiar story new and finds fresh meaning and poignancy in the Passion and Crucifixion.

A gripping, heartbreaking and beautiful thriller unforgettable Simon Sebag Montefiorecapitvating stark and unflinching Publishers WeeklyBERLIN, 1932Intelligent, artistic and precocious, fourteen-year-old Sophie Riedesel dreams of nothing more than becoming an actress and spending time with her beloved Jewish neighbour, Isaac Zarco. But when her father and boyfriend become Nazi collaborators and Hitlers meteoric rise to power gathers momentum, she is forced to lead a double life to protect those closest to her.Invited by Isaac into the Ring, a secret circle of underground activists working against the government, Sophie soon learns the ways of espionage and subterfuge. But when a series of sterilisations, murders and disappearances threatens to destroy the group, Sophie must fight to expose the traitor in their midst and save all that she loves about Germany whatever the price.Thrilling, suspenseful and evocative, The Seventh Gate is at once a love story, a tale of fierce heroism and a horrifying study of the Nazis war against the disabled.The Seventh Gate is not only a superb thriller but an intelligent and moving novel about the heartbreaking human condition. Alberto Manguelgripping, consuming, and shocking The reader will be haunted by these brave characters and the stirring murder mystery. New York Journal of Books[A] powerfully understated saga Kirkus Reviews

Zimler is an honest, powerful writer The Guardianpacey and accessible deeply moving The ObserverAt the dawn of the nineteenth century, John Stewart Zarco lives out an inquisitive, naive childhood in his idyllic Porto community. But societal prejudices against his familys Jewish faith shatter his innocence and even come to threaten his life.Following the tragic death of his dearest friend, it is only his unlikely bond with Midnight, an African healer and freed slave, that restores a sense of safety. But this fragile, fleeting peace is destroyed when Napoleons armies invade Portugal and John suffers another devastating loss one rooted in unspeakable betrayal and authored by those closest to him. The revelation sets John on course for antebellum America, in what might ultimately prove to be a doomed quest for hope amid unspeakable cruelty and sin.Rich in historical detail and mysticism, Hunting Midnight is Richard Zimlers mesmerising tale of deception, guilt, forgiveness and devotion, played out against a backdrop of war, slavery and religious oppression.I defy anyone to put this book down. It is a wonderful novel; a big, bold-hearted love story that will sweep you up and take you, uncomplaining, on a journey full of heartbreak and light. Nicholas ShakespeareA gripping adventure story, which can also be read at deeper levels The IndependentZimler packs his tale with exotic detail absorbing Publishers Weekly

powerful Booklistriveting Publishers Weekly[Zimler is] a master craftsman, and this book is Art a riveting murder mystery spectacular India TodayAfter his Jewish family fled the Catholic Inquisition in Portugal, Tiago Zarco lives a tranquil existence in colonial India, enjoying secret sojourns with his sister into the heady festivities of the local Hindu culture while evading the ruling Portuguese authorities.But as he comes of age in sixteenth-century Goa, Ti struggles to keep the far-reaching influence of the Inquisition from destroying his family and pulling him apart from the Hindu girl he loves. And when an act of betrayal sees his father imprisoned, he is forced to hunt down the traitor and make an unimaginable choice, triggering a harrowing journey that will show him the depths of human depravity and the poisonous salvation of revenge.At once passionate, furious and hopeful, Guardian of the Dawn is both a saga of horrifying religious persecution and a riveting, tender multicultural love story.Richard Zimlers style is so limpid and encompassing that you begin to find your bearings in 16th-century Portuguese-occupied Goa faster than you may have thought possible. The Guardianremarkable Times Literary SupplementAn exciting adventure story The Independent

ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2022Zimler is an honest, powerful writer The GuardianA memorable portrait of the search for meaning in the shadow of the Shoah. The Sunday TimesFrom the acclaimed author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams comes an unforgettable, deeply moving ode to solidarity, heroism and the kind of love capable of overcoming humanitys greatest horror.Maybe none of us is ever aware of our true significance.Benjamin Zarco and his cousin Shelly are the only two members of their family to survive the Holocaust. In the decades since, each man has learned, in his own unique way, to carry the burden of having outlived all the others, while ever wondering why he was spared.Saved by a kindly piano teacher who hid him as a child, Benni suppresses the past entirely and becomes obsessed with studying kabbalah in search of the Incandescent Threads nearly invisible fibres that he believes link everything in the universe across space and time. But his mystical beliefs are tested when the birth of his son brings the ghosts of the past to his doorstep.Meanwhile, Shelly devastatingly handsome, charming and exuberantly bisexual comes to believe that pleasures of the flesh are his only escape, and takes every opportunity to indulge his desires. That is, until he begins a relationship with a profoundly traumatised Canadian soldier and artist who helped to liberate Bergen-Belsen and might just be connected to one of the cousins departed kin.Across six non-linear mosaic pieces, we move from a Poland decimated by World War II to modern-day New York and Boston, hearing friends and relatives of Benni and Shelly tell of the deep influence of the beloved cousins on their lives. For within these intimate testimonies may lie the key to why they were saved and the unique bond that unites them.Rarely is a novel published that evidences such extraordinary literary talent AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE Açoriano Oriental

"Imagina que pudieras volar como una mariposa, saltar como un canguro o ver sobre las copas de los árboles como una jirafa. Todos sabemos que, a menudo, los niños sueñan con tener las características

Varsovia, 1941. Un asesino en serie pretende acabar con laúltima esperanza de los habitantes del gueto judío matando a sus niños y dejando tras de sí una macabra firma: a la pequeña Anna le habían cortado una mano y ahora Adam, de apenas 9 años, ha sido hallado sin su pierna derecha. Desafiando el crudo invierno polaco y la brutalidad nazi, el psicologo Erik Cohen, antiguo discipulo de Freud en Viena, recorre la ciudad en busca del criminal. Le ayudan tan solo un viejo amigo de la infancia, Izzy, y su ansia de justicia y venganza. A fin de cuentas, por las venas de Adam corria su misma sangre. Con Los anagramas de Varsovia, Richard Zimler nos ofrece una apasionante novela negra, un sugerente cuento de fantasmas y un conmovedor retrato de la penosa vida en el gueto de Varsovia. Un escenario de pesadilla donde la muerte, agazapada bajo una esvastica o no, se encontraba siempre a la vuelta de la esquina.

Varsovia, 1941. Un asesino en serie pretende acabar con la última esperanza de los habitantes del gueto judío matando a sus niños y dejando tras de sí una macabra firma: a la pequeña Anna le habían cortado una mano y ahora Adam, de apenas 9 años, ha sido hallado sin su pierna derecha. Desafiando el crudo invierno polaco y la brutalidad nazi, el psicologo Erik Cohen, antiguo discipulo de Freud en Viena, recorre la ciudad en busca del criminal. Le ayudan tan solo un viejo amigo de la infancia, Izzy, y su ansia de justicia y venganza. A fin de cuentas, por las venas de Adam corria su misma sangre. Con Los anagramas de Varsovia, Richard Zimler nos ofrece una apasionante novela negra, un sugerente cuento de fantasmas y un conmovedor retrato de la penosa vida en el gueto de Varsovia. Un escenario de pesadilla donde la muerte, agazapada bajo una esvastica o no, se encontraba siempre a la vuelta de la esquina.

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 the Jewish tradition at a time when the Jews of Portugal were forced to convert to Christianity. Berekiah, a talented young manuscript illuminator, investigates his uncle's murder, and discovers in the kabbalah clues that lead him into the labyrinth of secrets in which the Jews sought to hide from their persecutors. A challenging mystery and a powerful indictment of the evils of intolerance, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon is an extraordinary and spellbinding historical thriller.

Chief Inspector Henrique Monroe of the Lisbon Police Department is not your usual cop. Eccentric, elliptical - and stunningly observant - his peculiar behavior at crime scenes is legendary. But his colleagues put up with it because, in the end, Monroe's the best of the best. But he has a double-sided secret. And when he's called to investigate the brutal slaying of well-connected Portuguese businessman Pedro Coutinho, it's not just the murder case that will unravel - but his own identity, too. As Monroe's investigations lead him deep into a torrid world of shady political corruption and sexual violence, the details of the case trigger memories from his childhood in rural Colorado - memories he has travelled far, and worked hard, to hide. As Monroe's behavior becomes even more upsetting and inappropriate than usual, and even his family - his wife, his brother and his two young boys - start to fear for the man they thought they knew. As Henrique struggles to move his investigation forward whilst keeping the walls of his identity from crumbling, another violent crime changes his life forever, destroying any chance he has of continuing to keep his secret...A chilling psychological mystery, The Night Watchman is a uniquely moving portrait of a troubled police detective and his family when a single crime reveals the damaging impact of abuse and the tragic truth about an entire nation.

beguiling The Guardiana bold investigation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict TikkunIn February 2000, the writer Richard Zimler met a mysterious dancer at an Australian literary festival, only to witness her tragic suicide the next day. This shocking act was to trigger an investigation into her past that would alter the course of his life forever.His search initially leads him to the tranquillity and tolerance of 1950s Israel, where he learns of the powerful sisterhood forged between two girls one Palestinian, one Israeli. But as Zimler is drawn deeper into their story, he uncovers illusion, deceit and most shocking of all a connection to the most horrifying atrocity of the twenty-first century.At once a memoir and a thriller, The Search for Sana sees the internationally bestselling author of the Sephardic Cycle create an unflinching exploration of lifelong friendship, loyalty, cruelty and dispossession.a master craftsman India Todaya brilliant author with a touch of genius Rendezvous MagazineA terrific storyteller Literary Review

Set in Lisbon in 1506, a debut novel in the tradition of THE NAME OF THE ROSE. When his uncle, a renowned kabbalist, is found dead, Berekiah''s investigations lead him into the secret ways in which the Jews sought to hide from their persecutors.

Baraquías Zarco estudia la cábala con su tío y mentor, sin saber que, ante la amenaza de expulsión, su tío está sacando de Portugal los libros más importantes de los judíos para evitar que sean quemados. Durante las matanzas de 1506, el tío de Baraquías es encontrado muerto en la sinagoga secreta de la familia y, en un ambiente de persecuciones, violencias atroces y miedo, el joven inicia una investigación para esclarecer la muerte de su tío, en la que contará con la ayuda de un sordomudo. Siempre acosado por los cristianos, Baraquías va descubriendo aspectos de la vida de su tío que desconocía (quizás le mató un marido celoso, tal vez un comprador de libros raros para robarle...). La investigación es realmente intrigante, pero a su alrededor Zimler plantea un complejo problema de conciencia (el paso del deseo de justicia a la sed de venganza) y reconstruye perfectamente la Lisboa de la época y los nefastos días de pogromo.

In these 72 haiku, novelist Richard Zimler opens a door to the mystical traditions and concepts of Judaism.These verses do not require any prior knowledge of Kabbalah or Jewish culture, although the reader who is familiar with the practices of Jewish mysticism will be able to find hidden references and meanings in many of the poems. In this revised and redesigned edition, Zimler takes us on an unforgettable journey of beauty, sensitivity, and self-awakening.

Nestes 72 haikus, o romancista Richard Zimler abre-nos uma porta para a tradição e para a mística do judaísmo. Estes versículos não requerem conhecimento prévio da Cabala ou da cultura judaica, embor

Cuando las tropas napoléonicas llegan a Lisboa, la vida de John Zarco Steward, perteneciente a la misma familia judía de su novela anterior "El cabalista de Lisboa", corre un serio peligro, y será el africano liberto Medianoche quien, convertido en su mejor amigo, le indique el camino para vislumbrar el futuro en el horizonte, escapando a Estados Unidos, donde la esclavitud tendra un papel importante. Zimler ha escrito una novela que apunta directamente al corazon para sobrecogerlo y zarandearlo en lo mas profundo, al tiempo que lo introduce en una apasionante historia llena de misterios y enigmas. Comparado a menudo con Umberto Eco por la combinacion de elementos de "bestseller" con trasfondo historico y pensamiento de entidad y profundidad, las obras de Zimler son siempre, ademas de historias apasionantes, un estimulo para la reflexion y el debate que gozan de un enorme exito en muy diversos paises.

El periplo de unos judíos portugueses por la India, huyendo de la Inquisición.La novela narra el periplo y las desventuras de la familia de un judío portugués, ilustrador de manuscritos, que emigra a la India a finales del siglo XVI huyendo del terror de la Inquisicion portuguesa. Con el trasfondo del exotismo y la belleza magica de Oriente, los niños se inician a la vida, sufren las injusticias de la persecucion religiosa y el asombro ante la complejidad de la historia.Una novela magistral historica acerca de la epoca de la Inquisicion, profundamente evocadora. Un canto a la vida pese a la opresion. Un alegato contra la intolerancia. Una historia de pasion, celos, despecho y venganza narrada con una prosa de gran sensualidad.