The Magician
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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,…
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2 authors picked The Magician as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Irish writer Colm Toíbín is one of our greatest novelists.
The Magician, a fictional biography of the German writer Thomas Mann, is a madcap family epic. So immediate are Toíbín’s portraits of Mann, his wife, and his children that one thinks one knows them. But Toíbín also offers a brilliant portrait of Mann as a writer.
We get inside his mind as he writes about his unfulfilled erotic desires. But perhaps what is most compelling for me is Toíbín’s portrait of Germany in the 1930s. Mann fled Germany for Switzerland in 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor, and eventually moved…
From Rosemary's list on courage and putting your life on the line.
The best-fictionalised biography of the exiled German Nobel Prize winner of 1929, Thomas Mann.
This elegant and intimate portrait of a great writer is a 'tour de force'. Compelling and imaginative it masterfully captures the private and public conflict of Mann and his family during a time of global tumult.
Mann's infatuation with one of the richest and cultured Jewish families in Munich results in his marriage with their daughter Katia. However, this only adds to his inner turmoil created by his secret private life, compounded by the rise of Hitler, and his need to rethink his relationship with Germany.…
From Graham's list on the artist and the art of living.
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