The Magician Book (Paperback)
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RELEASE DATE - 3 MARCH 2022
From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.
The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism.
He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity.
Through one life, Colm Tóibín tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century.
'As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realised'
Richard Ford
'No living novelist dramatises artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Tóibín . . . reading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer'
Garth Greenwell
'This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world'
Katharina Volckmer
The personal and public history is compelling . . . an intriguing view of a writer who well deserves another turn on the literary stage
Kirkus Reviews, starred review
This vibrates with the strength of Mann's visions and the sublimity of Tóibín's mellifluous prose. Tóibín has surpassed himself
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| Author | Colm Tóibín |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages |
448 |
| ISBN |
9780241970584 |
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