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RICHARD ZIMLER
An American who lives in Portugal, Richard Zimler's first novel was a world wide best seller. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, winner of the Best First US Historical Mystery Herodotus Award from the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society in 1999, was translated in many languages received great consideration wherever it was sold. Zimler, author also of Unholy Ghosts (1996) and The Angelic Darkness (1999), teaches journalism at the University of Oporto.
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THE LAST KABBALIST OF LISBON

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon is a 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, a young manuscript illuminator. Inflamed by love and revenge, he searches 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.