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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime/Historical Fiction
eBook Description: A gripping literary mystery in the tradition of The Alienist and The Name of the Rose , and number-one bestseller in Portugal, with French, German, Italian, Spanish and Brazilian rights sold, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon is an extraordinary novel that transports the reader into the mystical universe of kabbalah during the Lisbon massacre of April 1506. Just a few years earlier, Jews living in Portugal were dragged to the baptism font and forced to convert to Christianity. Many of these "New Christians," in secret and at great risk, persevered in their rituals, and the hidden, arcane practices of the kabbalists continued as well. One such secret Jew was Berekiah Zarco, an intelligent young manuscript illuminator. Inflamed by love and revenge, he searches,in the crucible of the raging pogrom, for the killer of his beloved uncle Abraham, a renowned kabbalist discovered murdered in a hidden synagogue, along with a young girl in deshabille. Risking his life in streets seething with mayhem, Berekiah tracks down answers among Christians, New Christians, Jews, and the fellow kabbalists of his uncle, whose secret language and codes at turns light and obscure the way to the truth he seeks. A marvelous read, a challenging mystery and a telling tale of the evils of intolerance, The Last Kabbalistof Lisbon compels and entertains.

eBook Publisher: The Overlook Press
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2004

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Available eBook Formats [Secure - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT (499 KB]
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MobiPocket Reader ISBN: 1585676659
Adobe Acrobat Reader ISBN: 1585676241
Microsoft Reader ISBN: 158567625X

"You won't regret spending a few hours with this book ... a moody, tightly constructed thriller that is both entertaining and instructive."--Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

"Drenched in atmosphere and period detail ... Zimler does succeed in conveying the surrealistic nightmare of being a Jew in the age of the Inquisition."--The Wall Street Journal

"Zimler's portrait of the city, and the New Christians' uneasy place within it, enriches his many-layered narrative, in which a suitably complex cast of characters plays a dangerous game with fate."--The New York Times Book Review

"Zimler's central thesis is explosive and prophetic. It ought to be read as the reverse of Philip Roth's 'diasporism' as explained in Operation Shylock."--Newsday