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COLM TOIBIN - GEBRAUCHT THE MAGICIAN - PREIS VO...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER   WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022   SHORTLISTED
FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 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 realized' - Richard Ford   'No living
novelist dramatizes 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

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