Hunting Midnight (59 page)
Authors: Richard Zimler
Richard
Zimler
was born in Manhasset, New York. After gaining degrees in Comparative Religion from Duke University and in Journalism from Stanford University, he worked as a journalist. In 1990, he moved to Porto, Portugal, where he has taught journalism for the last twelve years, both at the College of Journalism and the University of Porto. He has published three novels since 1996:
Unholy
Ghosts
,
The
Angelic
Darkness,
and
The
Last
Kabbalist
of
Lisbon
which was named 1998 Book of the Year by three British critics and was a bestseller in eleven countries, including the USA, Great Britain, Australia and Italy. Zimler has won many prizes for his writing, and has lectured on Portuguese Jewish culture all over the world. He reviews books for
The
Los
Angeles
Times,
The
San
Francisco
Chronicle,
The
Literary
Review
(London) and
Livros
(Lisbon). When not writing, he enjoys gardening at his weekend house in the north of Portugal.
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First published in hardback by Delacorte Press 2003
This edition published by Constable, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2004
Copyright © Richard Zimler 2003, 2004
The right of Richard Zimler to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental
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A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978–1–78033–251–2