The Incandescent Threads

ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2022

'Zimler is an honest, powerful writer' The Guardian

'A memorable portrait of the search for meaning in the shadow of the Shoah.' The Sunday Times

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.

Maybe none of us is ever aware of our true significance.

Benjamin Zarco and his cousin Shelly are the only two members of their family to survive the Holocaust. 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.

Saved by a kindly piano teacher who hid him as a child, Benni suppresses the past entirely and becomes obsessed with...