Richard Zimler's Books
May.12.2012
By the author of the critically acclaimed international hits The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams, this novel proves Richard Zimler's mastery of the "riveting literary murder mystery" (Independent on Sunday). It's Berlin, 1932. Sophie is a smart and sexually precocious fourteen-year-old coming of age during Hitler's rise to power. Forced to lead a double life...
Sep.01.2011
"Love's Voice" is a doorway to kabbalah for readers at all levels of experience. Acclaimed novelist Richard Zimler uses the form of haiku to distill kabbalistic philosophy into its most poetic forms, providing a rare and deeply affectiving experience to the reader.
The seventy-two haiku in the book require no special knowledge of kabbalah or, indeed, of any Jewish...
Jul.21.2011
Warsaw, 1941--an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man—Heniek Corben— can see him and hear him. Heniek soon realizes that Cohen has become an ibbur—a spirit. But how and why has he taken this form?
As Cohen recounts his disturbing and moving story, small...
Feb.06.2005
In February 2000, Richard Zimler went to the Perth Writers’ Festival and met a talented dancer who told him how much his novel The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon had meant to her. The tragic step she would take the next day would change Zimler´s life forever, and launch him into an intense, three-year investigation of her past.
He uncovers the story of two girls – one Palestinian,...
Apr.03.2000
A gripping literary mystery and number-one bestseller in Europe, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon transports the reader into the mystical universe of kabbalah during the Lisbon Massacre of 1506, when 2,000 New Christians (Jews forcibly converted to Christianity) were murdered and burnt in the city's main square.
About Richard
Richard Zimler was born in Roslyn Heights, a suburb of New York, in 1956. After earning a bachelor’s degree in comparative religion from Duke University (1977) and a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University (1982), he worked for eight years as a...
Causes Richard Zimler Supports
Save the Children, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)