The Search for Sana

The Search for Sana

by RichardZimler (Author)

Synopsis

In 2000, Richard Zimler met a talented Brazilian dancer. The tragic step she would take the next day was to launch him into an obsessive investigation of her past. He discovers a childhood in 1950s Israel, a time of peaceful tolerance between Arabs and Jews in Haifa. There, despite their ethnic and religious differences, two girls - one Palestinian, one Israeli - forge a lifelong bond of sisterhood. Zimler's quest uncovers the story of this friendship, even as it leads him into a web of illusion, cruelty and deceit, and finally to 11 September 2001, when the tragedy he witnessed a year earlier is set in the starkest of political contexts. The Search for Sana blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction as it explores the nature of true friendship and the inception of an unthinkable crime.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 245
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Constable
Published: 02 Jun 2005

ISBN 10: 184529078X
ISBN 13: 9781845290788
Book Overview: In February 2000, Richard Zimler went to Australia for the Perth Writer's Festival. The day he arrived, he met a talented dancer who told him how much his novel The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon had meant to her. The tragic step she would take the next day would change Zimler's life for ever.

Media Reviews
'Zimler is an honest, powerful writer.' Guardian 'Zimler's writing is pacey and accessible without ever patronising the reader; deeply moving without ever descending into schmaltz.' Observer
Author Bio
Richard Zimler was born in New York and now lives and teaches journalism in Portugal. He has written five novels, including the internationally bestselling series The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Hunting Midnight and Guardian of the Dawn.