Warsaw Anagrams

It's Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of thePolish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world.Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, is forced to move into a tinyapartment with his niece and his beloved nine-year-old nephew, Adam. Onebitterly cold winter's day, Adam goes missing. The next morning, his bodyis discovered in the barbed wire surrounding the ghetto. The boy's leg hasbeen cut off, and a tiny piece of string has been left in his mouth. Soon,another body turns up - this time a girl's, and one of her hands has beentaken. Evidence begins to point to a Jewish traitor luring children totheir death...In this profoundly moving and darkly atmospheric historicalthriller, the reader is taken into the most forbidden corners ofNazi-occupied Warsaw - as well as into the most heroic places of the heart.Praise for Richard Zimler: 'A riveting literary murder mystery, [The LastKabbalist of Lisbon] is also a harrowing picture of the persecution of16th-century Jews and, in passing, an atmospheric introduction to thehermetic Jewish tradition of the Kabbalah' - "Independent on Sunday".'Zimler [is] a present-day scholar and writer of remarkable erudition andcompelling imagination, an American Umberto Eco' - "Spectator". 'Zimler hasthis spark of genius, which critics can't explain but readers recognise,and which every novelist desires but few achieve' - "Independent". 'Zimleris an honest, powerful writer' - "Guardian".