Richard Zimler: 9 books

The bestselling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon delivers a wartime thriller that’s “equal parts riveting, heartbreaking, inspiring, and intelligent” (San Francisco Chronicle). With his international-bestseller The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler made a name as a master...

A girl on the brink of adulthood. A city on the brink of war. “An intelligent and moving novel about the heartbreaking human condition” (Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night).   It’s Berlin, 1932. Sophie is a smart and sexually precocious fourteen-year-old coming of age during Hitler’s...

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 via. Depois, o inesperado acontece: a mulher, Sana, suicida-se...

From the international best-selling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a dazzling new work of historical fiction, retelling the story of the Passion from the point of view of Lazarus. According to the New Testament, Jesus resurrected his friend, but the Gospel of John omits details...

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 humor e no único amigo, Angel, um rapaz brasileiro de 16...

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 se recusavam a denunciar outros ou a renunciar à sua fé...

An ineffable mixture of light and dark, desire and death. 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...

Just a few years earlier, Jews living in Portugal were dragged to the baptismal font and forced to convert to Christianity. Many of these New Christians persevered in their Jewish prayers and rituals in secret and at great risk; the hidden, arcane practices of the kabbalists, a mystical sect of Jews,...