![]() But his mystical beliefs are tested when the birth of his son brings the ghosts of the past to his doorstep. ![]() Saved by a kindly piano teacher who hid him as a child, Benni suppresses the past entirely and becomes obsessed with studying kabbalah in search of the ‘Incandescent Threads’ – nearly invisible fibres that he believes link everything in the universe across space and time. In the decades since, each man has learned, in his own unique way, to carry the burden of having outlived all the others, while ever wondering why he was spared. Maybe none of us is ever aware of our true significance.īenjamin Zarco and his cousin Shelly are the only two members of their family to survive the Holocaust. ![]() From the acclaimed author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams comes an unforgettable, deeply moving ode to solidarity, heroism and the kind of love capable of overcoming humanity’s greatest horror. ![]()
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