The Warsaw Anagrams - Softcover

Praise for "The Warsaw Anagrams"

?Beautifully written, moving and disturbing, this packs a powerful, emotional punch.? --"The Guardian"

Praise for Richard Zimlar's "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon"

?Zimler's portrait of the city... enriches his many-layered narrative, in which a suitably complex cast of characters plays a dangerous game with fate.?--"The New York Times Book Review"

?A literary and historical treat.?--"Library Journal"

?A riveting literary murder mystery.?--"Independent on Sunday"

?Zimler [is] a present-day scholar and writer of remarkable erudition and compelling imagination, an American Umberto Eco.? --"Spectator"

Praise for "The Warsaw Anagrams"
?Beautifully written, moving and disturbing, this packs a powerful, emotional punch.? --"The Guardian"
Praise for Richard Zimlar's "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon"
?Zimler's portrait of the city... enriches his many-layered narrative, in which a suitably complex cast of characters plays a dangerous game with fate.?--"The New York Times Book Review"
?A literary and historical treat.?--"Library Journal"
?A riveting literary murder mystery.?--"Independent on Sunday"
?Zimler [is] a present-day scholar and writer of remarkable erudition and compelling imagination, an American Umberto Eco.? --"Spectator"

Praise for "The Warsaw Anagrams"
"The highly unusual setting adds tension to the investigation, and Zimler successfully manages to convey the horrors of the Holocaust through the experiences of one family." --"Publishers Weekly"
"An elderly Jewish psychiatrist investigates his grandnephew's murder in the Warsaw ghetto amid the horrors of the Holocaust." --"LA Times"
"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 Monteviore, author of "Jerusalem: The Biography" and "Young Stalin"
"Beautifully written, moving and disturbing, this packs a powerful, emotional punch." --"The Guardian"
"Wrenching and raw, "The Warsaw Anagrams" by Richard Zimler is an historical suspense novel as unique as it is compelling...This chilling novel explores themesn

Praise for "The Warsaw Anagrams"
"Part murder mystery and part historical fiction, Richard Zimler's latest novel, The Warsaw "Anagrams," renews the impact of the large-scale atrocities committed by the Nazis on millions of Jews by comparing them to the specific and gruesome murder of a child. Jewish folklore, "Anagrams," deceit, and treachery all play a part in a novel that successfully makes personal a massacre whose scope is all too easy to diminish by quoting a mostly abstract number: 6 million . . . Zimler's a good writer who maintains his story's suspense but prevents it from devolving into a commonplace page-turner . . . "Anagrams" is a thrilling and solemn story that depicts evil in a realistic way." -- "Boston Globe"
"The highly unusual setting adds tension to the investigation, and Zimler successfully manages to convey the horrors of the Holocaust through the experiences of one family." --"Publishers Weekly"
"An elderly Jewish psychiatrist investigates

"A gripping, heartbreaking, beautiful thriller."

"Spare but striking prose . . . masterful."

"A gripping, heartbreaking, beautiful thriller."----Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of"Young Stalin"
"Spare but striking prose . . . masterful."---"Newsday"
"Part murder mystery and part historical fiction . . . thrilling." "Boston Globe"

"A gripping, heartbreaking, beautiful thriller." Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of "Young Stalin"

"Spare but striking prose . . . masterful." "Newsday"
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With his international bestseller The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler first made a name as a master of historical thrillers. in this chilling mystery, winner of the Marques de Ouro Prize, Zimler has woven a gripping tale in the tradition of The Shadow of the Wind.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 discovered tangled in the barbed wire, strangely mutilated. soon afterward, another body turns up, this time a young girl. could there be a Jewish traitor luring children to their deaths? With an unlikely hero and hair-raising suspense, The Warsaw Anagrams is a profoundly moving and darkly atmospheric thriller.