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A story of friendship, loyalty and dispossession In February 2000, Richard Zimler went to Australia for the Perth Writers' Festival. While he was there, he met a talented dancer from a Brazilian mime and dance troupe. The tragic step she would take the next day would...
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...
In Zimler's dazzling tale, John Zarco Stewart is an impish child of bold inquisitiveness, the unwitting inheritor of a faith shrouded in 300 years of secrecy. Dark and bitter events put an end to his innocence and almost destroy him, but he is healed by the arrival in...
In late 16th-century Goa, despite the Catholic Inquision, the Zarco family holds firm to its Portuguese-Jewish roots. Ti and his sister enjoy their childhood with secret dips into the heady chaos of the Hindu festivals of their beloved cook, Nupi. But as they reach...
A Novel of Berlin, Prophesy, and Unfinished PortraitsIn the Author's Note to his internationally bestselling novel, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler described how he discovered a long-lost 16th-century manuscript in an Istanbul cellar written by a Portuguese...
" L'aspect le plus remarquable de cet admirable roman est la façon dont Richard Zimler réussit à faire de l'histoire la plus connue de toute notre culture un livre qu'on ne parvient pas à lâcher !" The GuardianSi tout le monde connaît l'histoire de Lazare et de sa...
Henrique Monroe, inspecteur de police à Lisbonne, n’est pas un flic comme les autres. Son comportement singulier sur les scènes de crime est même légendaire. Et si ses collègues comme sa hiérarchie s’en accommodent, c’est uniquement parce que Monroe est un enquêteur...
Pologne, automne 1940 : des milliers de Juifs se retrouvent confinés dans une petite parcelle de la capitale, le tristement célèbre ghetto de Varsovie. Parmi eux Erik Cohen, un vieux psychiatre, contraint de survivre dans un minuscule appartement avec sa nièce et son...
Um escritor - o próprio Richard Zimler - encontra, num festival em Perth, na Austrália, uma admiradora, bailarina numa companhia de dança brasileira, que lhe diz que o seu livro O Último Cabalista de Lisboa influenciou profundamente a sua ...
Na colónia portuguesa de Goa, no final do séc. XVI, a Inquisição fazia enormes progressos na sua missão de impedir todos os 'bruxos' - quer fossem nativos hindus, quer imigrantes judeus - de praticarem as suas crenças tradicionais. Os que ...
«Estamos no verão, e temos mangas maduras em todos os ramos da árvore nova. Têm a cor do sol nascente. A Mamã diz que são tão doces como as outras. É esse o efeito dos círculos, diz ela.» Um livro sobre um período muito delicado da nossa ...
A vida de Teresa muda radicalmente quando os pais deixam Lisboa para irem viver em Nova Iorque. Não estando preparada para a vida na América, com dificuldade para se exprimir em inglês, Teresa encontra refúgio no seu particular sentido de ...
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