The Warsaw Anagrams
Book description
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…
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Zimler’s earlier novel, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, presented masterful prose in the genres of historical fiction, mystery, and thriller.
The Warsaw Anagrams continued in this vein: a murder mystery set amidst the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto. For me, it was a “can’t-put-it-down” novel, and I was absolutely captivated by the author’s design. He has the ibbur – in this case, the late Dr. Erik Cohen – tell the story to Heniek Corben, and what a profound tale it is!
To the best of my knowledge, The Warsaw Anagrams was the first novel to present an ibbur,…
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