Probably one of my favourite of Zimler's work this is a gripping story, centred around the murder of a boy. As if life in the ghetto was not grim enough, the murder is gruesome and stirs up the emotions of the comunity. In the following investigation Zimler shows us another great set of character...
From the internationally bestselling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a novel of incomparable scope and beauty that takes the reader on an epic journey from war-ravaged nineteenth-century Europe to antebellum America. A bereft child, a freed African slave, and the rich history of Port...
O Último Cabalista de Lisboa é o primeiro de 4 volumes de uma série de romances históricos, intitulada The Sephardic Cycle. Da restante série, sei que o volume 2 e 3 - Meia Noite ou o Princípio do Mundo e Goa ou o Guardião da Aurora - são muito difíceis de encontrar. Já o volume 4 foi editado pel...
And now that I knew I was being observed, I could play a trick or two on them. I turned off my phone to keep its signal from giving away our position and rejoined Ernie. His hulking Chevrolet was parked just down the street. Rosie was curled in the driver’s seat. With her straining to lick my fac...
He was no more than twenty years old, with copper-coloured hair shining under his cap and long blond eyelashes. He’s just a rabbit of a boy, and if I don’t lose my nerve … ‘I’m from the Reich Census Bureau,’ I told him, ‘and this man is helping me.’ He looked at my swastika armband on the ground ...