by Richard Zimler · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725642467
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«O Último Cabalista de Lisboa» is the historical mystery novel by Richard Zimler, published by Quetzal Editores in paperback (313 pages, in Portuguese).
In the Lisbon of 1506, some two thousand New Christians die in a pogrom instigated by friars. Berekiah Zarco, an illuminator's apprentice, finds his uncle, the Kabbalist Abraão Zarco, murdered alongside a young woman in the secret synagogue. A valuable illuminated manuscript has disappeared; Berekiah investigates whether the culprit was Christian or Jewish.
First instalment of The Sephardic Cycle; its original title is The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon. This 1996 Portuguese edition is the 2nd and is translated by José Lima.
For readers of historical fiction and mystery with an interest in Jewish history and early sixteenth-century Portugal.
Richard Zimler is a best-selling author. His books, which have earned him a 1994 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and the 1998 Herodotus Award, have been published in many countries and translated into more than 20 languages.
