Evil will flourish even when good men fight it.
In this gripping and deeply moving mystery thriller set in the Warsaw ghetto of 1941, an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man—Heniek Corben—can see him and hear him. Heniek soon realizes that Cohen has become an ibbur—a spirit. But how and why has he taken this form?
Cohen recounts his disturbing and moving story to Heniek—a story of how a beloved great nephew vanished and later turned up as a mutilated corpse. Cohen’s investigation into this terrible death uncovers other ghetto children that have met similar fates and that the killer might be a Jew. As the story progresses, Heniek begins to believe that Cohen is not the secular Jew he claims to be but may, in fact, be a student of the mystical Kabbalah. When Heniek traces his suspicions, he comes to an astonishing conclusion, one that has consequences for his own identity and life—and perhaps for the reader’s as well.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Horror, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byStefan Rudnicki
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 21, 2011
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
18Chapter 18
2Chapter 2
19Chapter 19
3Chapter 3
20Chapter 20
4Chapter 4
21Chapter 21
5Chapter 5
22Chapter 22
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6Chapter 6
23Chapter 23
7Chapter 7
24Chapter 24
8Chapter 8
25Chapter 25
9Chapter 9
26Chapter 26
10Chapter 10
27Chapter 27
11Chapter 11
28Chapter 28
12Chapter 12
29Chapter 29
13Chapter 13
30Chapter 30
14Chapter 14
31Chapter 31
15Chapter 15
32Chapter 32
16Chapter 16
33Chapter 33
17Chapter 17
About the author
Richard Zimler
Richard Zimler is the award-winning author of several novels, including The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, winner of the Herodotus Award for Best First Historical Novel, and The Warsaw Anagrams, named the 2010 Book of the Year in Portugal by Ler. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists in twelve countries, including the United States, Great Britain, Portugal, Italy, and Australia. He writes reviews for the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle and lives in Porto, Portugal.View all by Richard Zimler
