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Hunting Midnight
by Richard Zimler
ISBN: 0385336446
ISBN-13: 9780385336444
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
This historical mystery takes place in Portugal and revolves around the friendship between a small boy and an African healer.
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"...[A]n earnest and deliberate thriller of family secrets..."
-- Kirkus
"This is an epic melodrama, spanning three continents and more than twenty-five years and building up to a genuinely moving climax." -- Joanna Hines
-- Literary Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published date: 2003
Size: 9.75 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.75 pounds
Pages: 499
Publisher's Notes
From the internationally bestselling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a novel of incomparable scope and beauty that takes the reader on an epic journey from war-ravaged nineteenth-century Europe to antebellum America. A bereft child, a freed African slave, and the rich history of Portugal’s secret Jews collide memorably in Richard Zimler’s mesmerizing novel--a dazzling work of historical fiction played out against a backdrop of war and chaos that unforgettably mines the mysteries of devotion, betrayal, guilt, and forgiveness.
Hunting Midnight
At the dawn of the nineteenth century in Portugal, John Zarco Stewart is an impish child of hotheaded emotions and playful inquisitiveness, the unwitting inheritor of a faith shrouded in three hundred years of secrecy--for the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula have been in hiding since the Inquisition. But a season of loss and bitter discovery brings his innocence to an abrupt end. It is only the ministrations of a magical stranger, brought to Porto by his seafaring father, that restore his safety: Midnight, an African healer and freed slave, the man who will become John’s greatest friend and determine the course of his destiny.
When Napoleon’s armies invade Portugal, violence again intrudes on John’s fragile peace, and seals his passage into adulthood with another devastating loss. But from the wreckage comes revelation as he uncovers truths and lies hidden by the people he loved and trusted most, and discovers the act of unspeakable betrayal that destroyed his family--and his faith. And so his shattering quest begins as he travels to America, to hunt for hope in a land shackled by unforgivable sin.
With stunning insight and an eye for rich historical detail--from the colorful marketplaces of Porto to the drowsy plantations of the American South, from the Judaism John discovers as a young man to the mystical Africa that Midnight conjures from his memories--in Hunting Midnight Richard Zimler has crafted a masterpiece.
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New York: Delacorte, 2003 Zimler is the author of The Last Kabbalist. In addition to suspense, this novel has historical sweep, exploring the legacy of the anti-semitic Catholic Inquisition as well as the gravitational pull of America's racial slavery.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. ( more information)
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