Richard Zimler's Reviews
Reviews of Richard’s Work
Mar.21.2013
Published by Le Courrier (Switzerland)
Dans Les Anagrammes de Varsovie, Richard Zimler allie avec virtuosité les dimensions fictives et historiques. Sur une toile de fond relatant d’authentiques événements de la...
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Nov.20.2012
Published by Simplyreaders.co.uk (online magazine)
The Warsaw Anagrams - Richard Zimler, 2012
Erik Cohen is a psychiatrist that is sent to the overcrowding in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. His life is only supported by...
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Sep.20.2012
Published by Vanity Fair (Spanish edition)
Estamos ente una de las sorpresas del verano. “Los anagramas de Varsovia” es, al mismo tiempo, una novela policiaca y una novela histórica. Y en ambos aspectos resulta vibrante...
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Oct.10.2011
Published by The Washington Independent Review of Books
The Warsaw Anagrams is an interesting mystery in itself, but Zimler is after bigger game. He hopes to prevent us from forgetting about the victims of the Nazis’ ethnic cleansing...
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Oct.10.2012
Published by Stanford Magazine
COMING OF AGE IN AN AGE OF INSANITY
The Seventh Gate, Richard Zimler, MA '82; Overlook, $26.95.
Sophie, retelling her teen years from the vantage point of the 21st century,...
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Sep.01.2012
Published by The Culture Trip (cultural website)
As one of the prominent areas of genre fiction, the thriller simultaneously engages, educates and scares its readers. Those who write within the genre need to be capable of...
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Aug.12.2012
Published by Historical Novel Society
(The Seventh Gate) is a mystery on one level, and there is mysticism, but that isn’t what this book is about in the final analysis. It is a personal, intense exploration of the...
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Jun.25.2012
Published by El Pais (literary supplement)
Por eso resulta original esta novela, que nunca abandona una visión optimista y positiva pese a la gravedad de los hechos que narra. Zimler, con diálogos bien armados y un lograda...
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Apr.30.2011
Published by Euro Crime
I found this a deeply moving book. It deals with the Second World War but with an aspect of it that is not discussed too often, and the author has researched his subject...
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Apr.28.2012
Published by Mysterious Bookshop website
Zimler, Richard, The Seventh Gate.
Zimler's latest is set in Germany in the 1930s when Hitler is coming to power. Sophie, a teen living in Berlin, is drawn to Isaac Zorco, a...
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Jul.19.1998
Published by The New York Times
Tomorrow is the 14th anniversary of this review that I received in the New York Times, of my very first novel, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon:
Sixteenth-century Lisbon is a...
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Jun.15.2012
Published by The Bookreporter
I don’t read much about World War II because I find it such a sad time in human history, but to me this book is an exception. What drew me to it was the mystery thrown in and...
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Apr.08.2008
Published by The Common Reader
This is the first book I have read by Richard Zimler and I am very impressed. I have read many books about Germany in the 1930s, both fiction and non-fiction, but none quite...
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Apr.12.2012
Published by La Razón (Spain)
Ni el clima político ni lo angustioso de la situación de los judíos antes del exterminio parece lo más pertinente para una novela policiaca y, sin embargo, la ambientación...
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Jun.01.2012
Published by Kirkus Reviews
In early 1930s Berlin, with Nazism on the rise, self-possessed 14-year-old Sophie Riedesel joins her kindly Jewish neighbor, Mr. Zarco, in a secret resistance group known...
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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)