Португалия конца XVIII века…Оживленные порты, куда приплывает множество кораблей из самых дальних стран, и городские улочки, на которых звучат невероятные истории о морских путешествиях…Инквизиция, преследующая еретиков-вольнодумцев и иудеев-иноверцев…Богатство купцов и ремесленников, нищета бедняков и бродяг…Именно здесь начинается история удивительных приключений юноши, которому предстоит стать участником грандиозных событий и в Старом, и в Новом Свете, пережить смертельный риск и великую, отчаянную любовь…
El siglo XVI est? llegando a su fin. En la colonia portuguesa de Goa, la Inquisici?n ha logrado establecerse y est? haciendo progresos en su labor de convertir al cristianismo tanto a los jud?os secretos como a la poblaci?n hind?. Pese a lo convulso de la situaci?n, la familia Zarco mantiene sus ra?ces portuguesas y jud?as. Tiago y su hermana Sofia disfrutan ilustrando manuscritos junto a su padre y con las fiestas hind?es que celebra su querida cocinera Nupi. Pero ese para?so acaba al mismo tiempo que su infancia, cuando padre ...
From the internationally bestselling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a novel of incomparable scope and beauty that takes the reader on an epic journey from war-ravaged nineteenth-century Europe to antebellum America. A bereft child, a freed African slave, and the rich history of Portugal's secret Jews collide memorably in Richard Zimler's mesmerizing novel — a dazzling work of historical fiction played out against a backdrop of war and chaos that unforgettably mines the mysteries of devotion, betrayal, guilt, and forgiveness.
Set in Lisbon in 1506, a debut novel in the tradition of THE NAME OF THE ROSE. When his uncle, a renowned kabbalist, is found dead, Berekiah's investigations lead him into the secret ways in which the Jews sought to hide from their persecutors.
It's 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 ...
