Description
Product ID: | 9781472112101 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon |
Authors: | Author: Richard Zimler |
Page Count: | 464 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A gripping literary mystery in the tradition of The Name of the Rose, set among a secret Jewish community living in Lisbon in the sixteenth century. 'I loved The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon.' John Le Carre The year is 1506, and the streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a naked girl at his side. Abraham was a renowned kabbalist, a practitioner of the arcane mysteries of the Jewish tradition at a time when the Jews of Portugal were forced to convert to Christianity. Berekiah, a talented young manuscript illuminator, investigates his uncle''s murder, and discovers in the kabbalah clues that lead him into the labyrinth of secrets in which the Jews sought to hide from their persecutors. |
Imprint Name: | Corsair |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-06-19 |