Richard Zimler, Author . Delacorte $23.95 (499p) ISBN 978-0-553-10553-7
Acts of cruelty and bigotry and a shocking betrayal propel this colorful if overstuffed historical novel by Zimler (The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon), set in 18th- and 19th-century Portugal. John Zarco Stewart is the son of a Scotsman and, through his...
READ FULL REVIEW
Richard Zimler. Overlook, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59020-088-9
Zimler, who examined the slaughter of Jews in 16th-century Portugal in The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, explores a different dark period in the Jewish people's history in this solid mystery thriller. In 1940, psychiatrist Erik Cohen moves into the...
READ FULL REVIEW
Richard Zimler. Overlook, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1590207130
Zimler (The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon) surpasses himself with this coming-of-age epic set in Berlin at the start of the Nazi era. In 1932, precocious 14-year-old Sophie Riedesel is adjusting to her changing body and desires, but she soon has other...
READ FULL REVIEW
Richard Zimler, Author, Zimler, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-04817-9
Androgyny and the occult offer solutions to a painful spiritual crisis in this mystical account of a divorced man's struggle for personal transformation in 1980s San Francisco. After his chronic philandering breaks up his marriage, psychically...
READ FULL REVIEW
Richard Zimler. Parthian, $25 (512p) ISBN 978-1-91364-064-4
Zimler’s exceptional latest (after The Gospel According to Lazarus) explores the Kabbalistic belief that people are linked across millennia by a mystical light. The six sections range in time from 1944 to 2018, unspooling the riveting story of two...
READ FULL REVIEW
ARTICLES
