Leeches

A young columnist sees an odd incident on the quay in Zemun and begins to investigate the people involved. The trail brings him to a mysterious young Jewish woman and puts in his hands a fascinating manuscript of kabbalistic texts. Step by step he learns the history of Zemun's Jewish community, including the strange story of the mystic Eleazar. At the same time his columns calling for tolerance and criticising antisemitism make him a target for antisemitic extremists, and a whirl of seemingly unconnected events draws him in, a story of a kabbalistic experiment and of paranoia that turns into reality.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

289 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia

First published

2005 by Stubovi kulture

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9788679791498 (original)

9780151015023 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, United States)

9780099563464 (Vintage, United Kingdom)