The Incandescent Threads (eBook)

Richard Zimler (Autor)

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2022
512 Seiten
Parthian Books (Verlag)
978-1-913640-73-6 (ISBN)

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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
From the acclaimed author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams comes an unforgettable, deeply moving ode to solidarity, heroism and the kind of love capable of overcoming humanity's greatest horror.
Maybe none of us is ever aware of our true significance.
Benjamin Zarco and his cousin Shelly are the only two members of their family to survive the Holocaust. In the decades since, each man has learned, in his own unique way, to carry the burden of having outlived all the others, while ever wondering why he was spared.
Saved by a kindly piano teacher who hid him as a child, Benni suppresses the past entirely and becomes obsessed with studying kabbalah in search of the 'Incandescent Threads' – nearly invisible fibres that he believes link everything in the universe across space and time. But his mystical beliefs are tested when the birth of his son brings the ghosts of the past to his doorstep.
Meanwhile, Shelly – devastatingly handsome, charming and exuberantly bisexual – comes to believe that pleasures of the flesh are his only escape, and takes every opportunity to indulge his desires. That is, until he begins a relationship with a profoundly traumatised Canadian soldier and artist who helped to liberate Bergen-Belsen – and might just be connected to one of the cousins' departed kin.
Across six non-linear mosaic pieces, we move from a Poland decimated by World War II to modern-day New York and Boston, hearing friends and relatives of Benni and Shelly tell of the deep influence of the beloved cousins on their lives. For within these intimate testimonies may lie the key to why they were saved and the unique bond that unites them.
'Rarely is a novel published that evidences such extraordinary literary talent… AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE' – Açoriano Oriental

Autor

Richard Zimler was born in New York in 1956 and now resides in Porto, Portugal. His twelve novels have been translated into twenty-three languages and have appeared on bestseller lists in twelve different countries, including the United States, the UK, Australia, Brazil, Italy and Portugal. Five of his works have been nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, the richest prize in the English-speaking world, and he has won several other accolades for his fiction across Europe and North America. The Incandescent Threads is the latest in his Sephardic Cycle, an acclaimed group of independent works that explore the lives of different branches and generations of a Portuguese-Jewish family, the Zarcos. zimler.com | @RichardZimler

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Auschwitz • Bergen Belsen • bisexual fiction • books about artists • books about depression • Books About Music • Books about Nazis • books about painters • books about piano • books about ptsd • Boston • Brooklyn • Canada • Coming out • Concentration Camp • Cousins • Donald Trump • exploring sexuality • Family Saga • Father Son Relationship • Forbidden Love • gay fiction • Gershom Scholem • hebrew books • Hitler • Holocaust • holocaust books • holocaust novels • Holocaust survivor books • Intergenerational Trauma • jewish fiction • jewish historical fiction • Jewish literary fiction • Jewish Mysticism • Kabbalah • kokopelli • learning piano • lgbt fiction • lgbtq fiction • Lighthouse of Alexandria • Lodz • male sexuality • Montreal • Music Teacher • Navajo • Nazis • New York • Pharos of Alexandria • piano teacher • Poland • Portuguese authors • Portuguese Jews • Portuguese writing • Prophecy • Queer Fiction • Sephardic Jews • sporting goods • survivor's guilt • Warsaw Ghetto • warsaw uprising • wartime novels • World War 2 • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-913640-73-6 / 1913640736
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913640-73-6 / 9781913640736