Richard Zimler

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1998
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

    International Bestseller: “A moody, tightly constructed historical thriller . . . a good mystery story and an effective evocation of a faraway time and place.” -- The New York TimesAfter Jews living in sixteenth-century Portugal a...

  • The Angelic Darkness

    An ineffable mixture of light and dark, desire and death. Richard Zimler's The Angelic Darkness is an unforgettable, tender, and magical portrait of San Francisco in the mid-80s as well as its lost souls, struggling to find love and intimacy in a cit...

  • Hunting Midnight

    'Zimler is an honest, powerful writer' The Guardian
    'pacey and accessible… deeply moving' The Observer
    At the dawn of the nineteenth century, John Stewart Zarco lives out an inquisitive, naive childhood in his idyllic Port...

  • Guardian of the Dawn

    'powerful' Booklist
    'riveting' Publishers Weekly
    '[Zimler is] a master craftsman, and this book is Art… a riveting murder mystery… spectacular' India Today
    After his Jewish family fled the Catholic Inquisiti...

  • The Children's Hours

    Featuring an international constellation of notable authors, this anthology explores and celebrates childhood with tales touching on abuse and rejection, loneliness and love, the joys of friendship and discovery, and the first confused inklings of ad...

  • The Warsaw Anagrams

    It is autumn, 1940, and the Nazis have sealed 400,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, moves into a tiny apartment with his last remaining relatives. then his beloved great-nephew Adam goes missing and his body is dis...

  • The Seventh Gate

    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 when her father and boyfriend become Nazi collaborators, she reserves her dreams of becoming an a...

  • The Gospel According to Lazarus

    From the international best-selling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a dazzling new work of historical fiction, retelling the story of the Passion from the point of view of Lazarus. According to the New Testament, Jesus resurrected his fr...

  • The Night Watchman



  • The Lost Gospel of Lazarus

    A powerful tale inspired by the biblical Raising of Lazarus.What if your beloved friend brings you back from the dead, and you see nothing of any afterlife? And what if that friend is Yeshua, the mystic who will come to be known as Jesus? His miracle...

  • The Incandescent Threads

    ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2022
    'Zimler is an honest, powerful writer' " The Guardian
    'A memorable portrait of the search for meaning in the shadow of the Shoah.' " The Sunday Times

  • The Search for Sana

    'beguiling' The Guardian
    'a bold investigation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict' Tikkun
    In February 2000, the writer Richard Zimler met a mysterious dancer at an Australian literary festival, only to witness her tragic su...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Zimler has published 12 books.

Richard Zimler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Search for Sana, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Richard Zimler, Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, was published in May 1998.

No. Richard Zimler does not write books in series.
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