Guardian of the Dawn

Richard Zimler was born in New York in 1956 and now resides in Porto, Portugal. His twelve novels have been translated into twenty-three languages and have appeared on bestseller lists in twelve differentcountries, including the United States, the UK, Australia, Brazil, Italy and Portugal. Five of his works have been nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, the richest prize in the English-speaking world, and he has won several other accolades for his fiction across Europe and North America. The Incandescent Threads is the latest in his Sephardic Cycle, an acclaimed group of independent works that explore the lives of different branches and generations of a Portuguese-Jewish family, the Zarcos. zimler.com |@RichardZimler

Author is a multiple prize winner and nominee who has previously sold over 935,000 copies of his books worldwide.55,000 copies sold in all languages worldwide.UK, Indian and Portuguese editions of the novel were bestsellers.Winner of the 2009 Alberto Benveniste Literary Award for Best Jewish-themed novel published in France.The third novel in the Sephardic Cycle, a group of independent works that explore the lives of different branches and generations of a Portuguese-Jewish family, the Zarcos.‘Richard Zimler’s style is so limpid and encompassing that you begin to find your bearings in 16th-century Portuguese-occupied Goa faster than you may have thought possible!’ – The Guardian