The Seventh Gate
by Richard Zimler
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81%
Critic Reviews: 8
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Reader Ratings: 6
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Synopsis
Hitler's rise to power backgrounds this novel of Kabbalistic prophecy and double lives by the “American Umberto Eco” (Spectator)By the author of the critically acclaimed international hits The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams, this novel proves Richard Zimler's mastery of the “riveting literary murder mystery” (Independent on Sunday). It's Berlin, 1932. Sophie is a smart and sexually precocious fourteen-year-old coming of age during Hitler's... more
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- All Critics: 8
- Positive: 7
- Negative: 1
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 Jun 2012
Adult fiction that counts on readers' ability to draw meaning from cultural signposts such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Greta Garbo and The Magic Mountain. But its plucky heroine gives it young adult appeal as well.
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A Common Reader
This is a magnificent book, reminding me slightly of Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum – equally disturbing and quite as challenging.
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Publishers Weekly | 2 Apr 2012
The whodunit is captivating enough, but the book’s power lies in its stark and unflinching portrayal of the impact of Hitler’s eugenic policies on the infirm and disabled
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The Wall Street Journal | 1 Jun 2012
The novel's explanations and revelations, when they at last arrive, bring an irritating number of implausible complexities.
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Book Coasters | 31 Jul 2012
It is well written and it is one of the few stories I have read that gives this particular insight into the individualism of how the German people reacted to Hitler’s increasing power.
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Book Reporter | 15 Jun 2012
If you love historical fiction with characters that make no apologies for who they are and what they do, THE SEVENTH GATE is a book you should read.
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Red Room | 28 Apr 2012
His research into this period of history is exhaustive and his writing is exquisite and often heartbreaking
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The Overlook Press | 24 May 2012
The Seventh Gate is a suspenseful, immensely moving, and ultimately shocking historical mystery that artfully reconstructs the chilling atmosphere of 1930s Berlin.
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