Review
Beautifully written, moving and disturbing, this packs a powerful, emotional punch. --The Guardian
Richard Zimler's Warsaw Anagrams is a gripping heartbreaking and beautiful thriller, set in the darkest depths of Nazi barbarity, but also a unforgettable, poetical and original journey into the mysteries of evil, decency and the human heart. --Simon Sebag Montefiore
Richard Zimler's Warsaw Anagrams is a gripping heartbreaking and beautiful thriller, set in the darkest depths of Nazi barbarity, but also a unforgettable, poetical and original journey into the mysteries of evil, decency and the human heart. --Simon Sebag Montefiore
Product Description
Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, is forced to move into a tiny apartment with his niece and his beloved nine-year-old nephew, Adam.
One bitterly cold winter's day, Adam goes missing. The next morning, his body is discovered in the barbed wire surrounding the ghetto. The boy's leg has been cut off, and a tiny piece of string has been left in his mouth.
Soon, another body turns up & this time a girl's, and one of her hands has been taken. Evidence begins to point to a Jewish traitor luring children to their death
In this profoundly moving and darkly atmospheric historical thriller, the reader is taken into the most forbidden corners of Nazi-occupied Warsaw & as well as into the most heroic places of the heart.
Praise for Richard Zimler:
A riveting literary murder mystery, [The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon] is also a harrowing picture of the persecution of 16th-century Jews and, in passing, an atmospheric introduction to the hermetic Jewish tradition of the Kabbalah. Independent on Sunday
Zimler [is] a present-day scholar and writer of remarkable erudition and compelling imagination, an American Umberto Eco. Spectator
Zimler has this spark of genius, which critics can't explain but readers recognise, and which every novelist desires but few achieve. Independent
Zimler is an honest, powerful writer-Guardian
One bitterly cold winter's day, Adam goes missing. The next morning, his body is discovered in the barbed wire surrounding the ghetto. The boy's leg has been cut off, and a tiny piece of string has been left in his mouth.
Soon, another body turns up & this time a girl's, and one of her hands has been taken. Evidence begins to point to a Jewish traitor luring children to their death
In this profoundly moving and darkly atmospheric historical thriller, the reader is taken into the most forbidden corners of Nazi-occupied Warsaw & as well as into the most heroic places of the heart.
Praise for Richard Zimler:
A riveting literary murder mystery, [The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon] is also a harrowing picture of the persecution of 16th-century Jews and, in passing, an atmospheric introduction to the hermetic Jewish tradition of the Kabbalah. Independent on Sunday
Zimler [is] a present-day scholar and writer of remarkable erudition and compelling imagination, an American Umberto Eco. Spectator
Zimler has this spark of genius, which critics can't explain but readers recognise, and which every novelist desires but few achieve. Independent
Zimler is an honest, powerful writer-Guardian
