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 [...]
Richard Zimler's The Angelic Darkness is an unforgettable, tender, and magical portrait of San Francisco in the mid-80s as well as its lost souls, struggling to find love and intimacy in a city whose buoyancy has been eclipsed by the shadows of gloom. Offering them a way out of these shadows is a st[...]
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-side[...]
The "riveting, heartbreaking, inspiring, and intelligent" ("San Francisco Chronicle") historical thriller by the bestselling author of "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon."
With his international bestseller "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon," Richard Zimler first made a name as a master of historical thri[...]
It's Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, is forced to move into a tiny apartment with his niece and his beloved nine-year-old nephew, Adam. One bitterly cold [...]
Bill Ticino's fruitless and numbing marriage finally breaks up. Plagued by insomnia and spiritually lost, Bill finds a loger as the solution to his problems; a handsome, charismatic Portuguese man named Peter. Bill finds himself drawn into a world of kabbalistic storytelling, charms and ritual. Pete[...]
Denna roman utgör den 4:e i ordningen av den s.k. Sefardiska cykeln eller sagan om familjen Zarco. I 1500-talets Lissabon letade Berekiah Zarco i manuskript efter hemliga meddelanden och profetiska utsagor om judarnas öde. Nu har hans ättling Isaac Zarco slagit sig ner i Berlin och lo[...]