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Guardian of the Dawn First Edition
Author(s): Richard Zimler (Author)
- Publisher: Constable
- Publication Date: 27 Jan. 2005
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781845290917
- ISBN-13: 1845290917
Book Description
In late 16th-century Goa, despite the Catholic Inquision, the Zarco family holds firm to its Portuguese-Jewish roots. Ti and his sister enjoy their childhood with secret dips into the heady chaos of the Hindu festivals of their beloved cook, Nupi. But as they reach adulthood, the family is torn apart when the father and then the son are imprisoned by the Inquisition. Only someone close to the family could have denounced them. Intent on revenge, Ti is forced finally to face the truth of the betrayal and reassess his most fundamental beliefs.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘An involving study of evil, alive with local colour and well-researched detail’ — Daily Mail, January 14, 2005
‘GUARDIAN … is a good solid family history, meticulously researched and saturated with the sensuous textures of everyday life.’ —
Sfgate.com, August 7, 2005‘Richard Zimler’s style is so limpid and encompassing that you begin to find your bearings in 16th-century Portuguese-occupied Goa’ —
The Guardian Review, January 29, 2005‘Zimler remains both a terrific storyteller and a wizard at evoking a long since vanished way of life’ —
Literary Review, March 1, 2005Richard Zimler creates ‘an idiomatic language that reflects the religious and cultural diversity of place and period’ —
Times Literary Supplement, January 28, 2005This novel delves into the darkest currents of the human mind and heart. Few readers will remain untouched —
The Historical Novels ReviewAbout the Author
Richard Zimler was born in Manhasset, New York, in 1956. Guardian of the Dawn is the third in his series of independent historical novels about different branches and generations of the Portuguese-Jewish Zarco family. The first two – The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, named 1998 Book of the Year by three British critics, and Hunting Midnight – were international bestsellers. Richard lives in Porto, Portugal, where he has taught journalism for the last twelve years.
